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

Killing characters on television has become an easy short cut to cathartic emotion.

My ultimare goal is, without illusion and without sentimentality, merely by telling the truth as I see it, to break your heart. If I can break your heart and cause your awareness to expand to include another person's experience, even a fictional person's experience, and to inhabit for a moment their sorrow and suffering, then I think it expands us as people.

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.

As someone with a novelistic background, I just didn't have much interest in creating stories by committee. I don't think you necessarily get the best story through that approach.

I was raised by television. It was my first cultural window. It was a constant companion.

Art was always for me an escape and a way to relate to the world around me.