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

I knew the past wasn't real. It was only an idea, and the thing I'd wanted to touch, to brush against, the feeling I couldn't name - it just didn't exist. It was only an idea, too.

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

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

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.

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