If I write scripts that nobody likes, I don't think we'll be doing 'True Detective.'
Some people, no matter where they look, they see themselves.
Art was always for me an escape and a way to relate to the world around me.
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.
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.
If landscape is a character for me, then it helps if I'm familiar with it and I already have a take on it.
I was raised in a heavily Catholic family. Early and consistent encounters with mysticism.
I didn't come to Hollywood to be subservient to anyone else's vision.
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.
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.
The idea of being a show runner was very attractive to me, to create and control something.
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