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" 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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" 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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

Nothing

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

Nic Pizzolatto

Want

Story

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

Exploration

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

" 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

Thought

Television