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

Whatever story you're telling in Louisiana, the landscape is going to become a character in it.

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

Often, what allows someone to behave heroically in dire circumstances is unpalatable in day-to-day life.

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

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

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

I didn't come to Hollywood to be subservient to anyone else's vision.

Nothing in the television show 'True Detective' was plagiarized.

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

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

I don't think you can create effectively toward expectation. I'm not in the service business.

If landscape is a character for me, then it helps if I'm familiar with it and I already have a take on it.

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.

I'm not in the service business.

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.

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.

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

Certain experiences you can't survive, and afterward you don't fully exist, even if you failed to die.

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

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.

It's better to not have a reputation than a bad one.

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

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

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