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.

I made True Detective like it was going to be the only thing I ever made for television. So put in everything and the kitchen sink. Everything.

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

You just do the best you can, and when you're able to connect with people, and when you do, it's just incredibly gratifying.

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.

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

I find the constraints of drama actually freeing: It brings everything down to character and action.