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

The work is where I tend to feel pressure - not so much in the reaction to it.

I was raised in a heavily Catholic family. Early and consistent encounters with mysticism.

The ideas within this philosophy are certainly not exclusive to any writer.

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

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.

The Atlantic really gave me my writing career - even just the conviction to be a writer.