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.
Nic PizzolattoWe live in a culture that has a real hard time distinguishing fiction from reality. Even when they're told something is fiction.
Nic PizzolattoI was raised by television. It was my first cultural window. It was a constant companion.
Nic PizzolattoI find the constraints of drama actually freeing: It brings everything down to character and action.
Nic PizzolattoMy 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.
Nic Pizzolatto