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" 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
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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. "
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" It's better to not have a reputation than a bad one. "
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Reputation
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" 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. "
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Narrative
Writing
Theory
" 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. "
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Good
Bureaucracy
" 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
" I was raised in a heavily Catholic family. Early and consistent encounters with mysticism. "
Nic Pizzolatto
Consistent
Family
Early
" 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. "
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Place
Quality
Years
" 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. "
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True
Yourself
You
" It's your job to come up with compelling characters who speak to an individual authenticity. If I'm not interested in the characters, I can't go on. I have to be fascinated by them. "
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Authenticity
Speak
Job
" 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
" 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
" Often, what allows someone to behave heroically in dire circumstances is unpalatable in day-to-day life. "
Nic Pizzolatto
Someone
Circumstances
Behave
" 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
" 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
" Art was always for me an escape and a way to relate to the world around me. "
Nic Pizzolatto
Escape
World
Art
" 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. "
Nic Pizzolatto
Up
Thought
Television
" I was raised by television. It was my first cultural window. It was a constant companion. "
Nic Pizzolatto
Companion
Window
Television
" For the finale, I thought the audience deserved to get a close point of view on the monster, and to recognize him the way you recognize the heroes of 'True Detective.' "
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Thought
True
View
" 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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Reality
Me
Exploration
" 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
" 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. "
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Personal
Degree
Connect
" I didn't come to Hollywood to be subservient to anyone else's vision. "
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Vision
Else
Come
" Nothing in the television show 'True Detective' was plagiarized. "
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True
Television
Show
" 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
" The idea of being a show runner was very attractive to me, to create and control something. "
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Create
Attractive
Control
" If landscape is a character for me, then it helps if I'm familiar with it and I already have a take on it. "
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Take
Then
Character
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Seem
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