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.

Most television shows are going to require an actor sign up from four to six years, but an anthology show really amounts to five or six months at the most. I thought serious actors might be attracted to that.

I don't think you can create effectively toward expectation. I'm not in the service business.

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

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

Often, what allows someone to behave heroically in dire circumstances is unpalatable in day-to-day life.

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