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

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.

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

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.

Certain experiences you can't survive, and afterward you don't fully exist, even if you failed to die.

And if we’re talking about hard-boiled detectives, too, what could be more hardboiled than the worldview of Ligotti or Cioran? They make the grittiest of crime writers seem like dilettantes. Next to The Conspiracy Against the Human Race, Mickey Spillane seems about as hard-boiled as bubble gum.

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