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

There's never been anything I didn't love that I didn't connect with on a personal level because to some degree, I projected upon it.

We live in a culture that has a real hard time distinguishing fiction from reality. Even when they're told something is fiction.

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

I find the constraints of drama actually freeing: It brings everything down to character and action.

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.

If I write scripts that nobody likes, I don't think we'll be doing 'True Detective.'