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

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" 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. "

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