The Atlantic really gave me my writing career - even just the conviction to be a writer..

Art was always for me an escape and a way to relate to the world around me..

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..

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 ….

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

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….

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….

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….

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

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 ….

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….

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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