I've found that all weak people share a basic obsession - they fixate on the idea of satisfaction. Anywhere you go men and women are like crows drawn….

My ultimare goal is, without illusion and without sentimentality, merely by telling the truth as I see it, to break your heart. If I can break your ….

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 ideas within this philosophy are certainly not exclusive to any writer..

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 bes….

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

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

I knew the past wasn't real. It was only an idea, and the thing I'd wanted to touch, to brush against, the feeling I couldn't name - it just didn't e….

And if we’re talking about hard-boiled detectives, too, what could be more hardboiled than the worldview of Ligotti or Cioran? They make the gritties….

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..

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

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 a….

You can't really judge an actor's abilities by their career, because the business is going to pigeonhole people into whatever turns a profit, and no ….

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

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….

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

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

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

Certain experiences you can't survive, and afterward you don't fully exist, even if you failed to die..

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

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