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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" There are websites of 'True Detective' artwork out there now, and it's beautiful. And I don't want to take that away from anybody. I know what it means to me. But I don't want to take away anyone's interpretation of the show. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" At DePauw, I was teaching writing and fiction. The things I wanted to teach, more than anything else, were form and theory of the novel, of narrative. I liked those classes. "

" 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. "

" I was raised by television. It was my first cultural window. It was a constant companion. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 don't think you can create effectively toward expectation. 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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