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

The idea of being a show runner was very attractive to me, to create and control something.

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.

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

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

I read The Conspiracy Against the Human Race and found it incredibly powerful writing. For me as a reader, it was less impactful as philosophy than as one writers ultimate confessional: an absolute horror story, where the self is the monster.

Killing characters on television has become an easy short cut to cathartic emotion.