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" 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. "

Nic Pizzolatto

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Early

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" 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. "

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

" 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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

Nic Pizzolatto

Want

Story

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

" 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 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "