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.

The Atlantic really gave me my writing career - even just the conviction to be a writer.

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

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.

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'm not in the service business.

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