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.

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

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.

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

Some people, no matter where they look, they see themselves.

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.

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