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.

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.

Most television shows are going to require an actor sign up from four to six years, but an anthology show really amounts to five or six months at the most. I thought serious actors might be attracted to that.

You just do the best you can, and when you're able to connect with people, and when you do, it's just incredibly gratifying.

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

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