The work is where I tend to feel pressure - not so much in the reaction to it.

The Atlantic really gave me my writing career - even just the conviction to be a writer.

If I write scripts that nobody likes, I don't think we'll be doing 'True Detective.'

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

There's never been anything I didn't love that I didn't connect with on a personal level because to some degree, I projected upon it.

You can't really judge an actor's abilities by their career, because the business is going to pigeonhole people into whatever turns a profit, and no artist is less in charge of how their work is presented than an actor, the appeal of Vince was that within a great naturalism, he can convey fierce intelligence, complex emotion, and a real warmth married to a real edge, strength and vulnerability and danger and humor. There are essential contradictions at work that makes him fascinating to watch.

I read The Conspiracy Against the Human Race and found it incredibly powerful writing. For me as a reader, it was less impactful as philosophy than as one writers ultimate confessional: an absolute horror story, where the self is the monster.