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" Art was always for me an escape and a way to relate to the world around me. "
Nic Pizzolatto
Escape
World
Art
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" TV and film were always governing passions of mine, and that first wave of great HBO shows in the early years of the millennium was feeding my desire for fiction more than the books I was reading. "
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Reading
Early
Wave
" We're all born storytellers. It's part of the species. But, more specifically, I suppose a particular combination of sensitivity and trauma made me a writer: an essential disquiet with reality, which required exploration through portrayal. "
Nic Pizzolatto
Reality
Me
Exploration
" I was raised by television. It was my first cultural window. It was a constant companion. "
Nic Pizzolatto
Companion
Window
Television
" The work is where I tend to feel pressure - not so much in the reaction to it. "
Nic Pizzolatto
Reaction
Where
Feel
" If you are a certain kind of hands-on learner and have been in a writers room and know how scripts get made, and you know what pre-production is, then mostly it's making sure the actors get what they need, and you are providing creative oversight while allowing room for everyone else to own the material, too. "
Nic Pizzolatto
Kind
Creative
You
" In the summer of 2010, I was working on a version of 'True Detective' that I was thinking might be my next novel, and it was told in these two first-person voices; Cohle and Hart's voices. "
Nic Pizzolatto
Working
Summer
Thinking
" If I write scripts that nobody likes, I don't think we'll be doing 'True Detective.' "
Nic Pizzolatto
Doing
Nobody
Think
" I enjoy a third act, and I like stories with ending. A lot of my frustration with serialized storytelling is a lot of shows don't have a third act. They have an endless second act, and then they find out it's their last year and often have to hustle to invent a third act, but they were never necessarily organically meaning to begin with. "
Nic Pizzolatto
Hustle
Frustration
Ending
" If there was one overarching theme to 'True Detective,' I would say it was that, as human beings, we are nothing but the stories we live and die by - so you'd better be careful what stories you tell yourself. "
Nic Pizzolatto
True
Yourself
You
" I left the University of Chicago's creative writing program for a tenure-track job at DePauw University in Indiana, then left DePauw in 2010 for Los Angeles. "
Nic Pizzolatto
Left
Creative
Chicago
" Whatever I watched, whatever I loved in 36 years of life on Earth, probably had some influence on me. "
Nic Pizzolatto
Earth
Influence
Life
" We live in a culture that has a real hard time distinguishing fiction from reality. Even when they're told something is fiction. "
Nic Pizzolatto
Culture
Live
Real
" The conspiracies that I've researched and encountered, they seem to happen very ad hoc: they become conspiracies when it's necessary to have a conspiracy. "
Nic Pizzolatto
Seem
Happen
Become
" You know how people say that young people feel immortal? I don't know what they're talking about. I was planning for how I would deal with my death in good conscience well before I even hit puberty. "
Nic Pizzolatto
Know
You
Death
" When you're a confused 19-year-old filled with questions you can't even articulate and a kind of black rage that feeds at your heart from the moment you wake up in the morning, and you discover Marcus Aurelius' 'The Meditations,' that changes your life. "
Nic Pizzolatto
Moment
Black
Heart
" I'd want to bring a flamethrower to faculty meetings. The preciousness of academics and their fragile personalities would not be tolerated in any other business in the known universe. "
Nic Pizzolatto
Want
Business
Meetings
" As someone with a novelistic background, I just didn't have much interest in creating stories by committee. I don't think you necessarily get the best story through that approach. "
Nic Pizzolatto
Someone
Story
Think
" I grew up in Louisiana and spent my formative years there. There's a contradictory nature to the place and a sort of sinister quality underneath it all. "
Nic Pizzolatto
Place
Quality
Years
" I grew up in a working-class Catholic family in south Louisiana. I went to a state university. I taught literature, wrote a novel that was the novel I wanted to write, and got a couple of good reviews but no real traction. I had no idea how to get a job in TV. "
Nic Pizzolatto
Got
Real
Good
" I didn't come to Hollywood to be subservient to anyone else's vision. "
Nic Pizzolatto
Vision
Else
Come
" I find the constraints of drama actually freeing: It brings everything down to character and action. "
Nic Pizzolatto
Find
Drama
Down
" It's better to not have a reputation than a bad one. "
Nic Pizzolatto
Better
Reputation
Than
" 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. "
Nic Pizzolatto
Everything
True
Television
" I don't think you can create effectively toward expectation. I'm not in the service business. "
Nic Pizzolatto
Service
You
Think
" I liked teaching, but the bureaucracy of academia and the petty intrigue... It wasn't a good fit. Once I admitted that myself, that I didn't like academia, I was ready to try TV. "
Nic Pizzolatto
Myself
Good
Bureaucracy
" Killing characters on television has become an easy short cut to cathartic emotion. "
Nic Pizzolatto
Easy
Emotion
Short
" 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. "
Nic Pizzolatto
Personal
Degree
Connect
" 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. "
Nic Pizzolatto
Get
Ideas
Pilot
" For me, the worst writing generally just 'flips' things: this person's really a traitor; it was all a dream; etc. Nothing is so ruinous as a forced 'twist,' I think. "
Nic Pizzolatto
Dream
Me
Nothing
" Whatever story you're telling in Louisiana, the landscape is going to become a character in it. "
Nic Pizzolatto
Story
Landscape
Become