For me as a storyteller, I want to follow the characters and the story through what they organically demand.

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

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

I'm not in the service business.

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.

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