At DePauw, I was teaching writing and fiction. The things I wanted to teach, more than anything else, were form and theory of the novel, of narrative. I liked those classes.

In the summer of 2010, I was working on a version of "True Detective" that I was thinking might be my next novel, and it was told in these two first-person voices; Cohle and Hart's voices.

I don't think you can create effectively toward expectation. I'm not in the service business.

I didn't come to Hollywood to be subservient to anyone else's vision.

The ideas within this philosophy are certainly not exclusive to any writer.

Most television shows are going to require an actor sign up from four to six years, but an anthology show really amounts to five or six months at the most. I thought serious actors might be attracted to that.

Whatever I watched, whatever I loved in 36 years of life on Earth, probably had some influence on me.