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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

" I knew 'True Detective' wasn't something I could allow anyone else to develop. But by the time HBO expressed an interest, I still had no real experience. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "