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

If landscape is a character for me, then it helps if I'm familiar with it and I already have a take on it.

The idea of being a show runner was very attractive to me, to create and control something.

Whatever story you're telling in Louisiana, the landscape is going to become a character in it.

As human beings, we are nothing but the stories we live and die by — so you’d better be careful what stories you tell yourself.

In the summer of 2010, I had decided to get into film and TV writing, so I wrote scripts for six different ideas I had developed, and the pilot for True Detective was one of them.

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