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.

Whatever I watched, whatever I loved in 36 years of life on Earth, probably had some influence on me.

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.

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

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

I made True Detective like it was going to be the only thing I ever made for television. So put in everything and the kitchen sink. Everything.