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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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" 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

" 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

" 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 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. "

" 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

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

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

" I read 'The Conspiracy Against the Human Race' and found it incredibly powerful writing. For me as a reader, it was less impactful as philosophy than as one writer's ultimate confessional: an absolute horror story, where the self is the monster. "

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

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" Killing characters on television has become an easy short cut to cathartic emotion. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" It's better to not have a reputation than a bad one. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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