If I write scripts that nobody likes, I don't think we'll be doing 'True Detective.'
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.
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.
Some people, no matter where they look, they see themselves.
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.
