The idea of being a show runner was very attractive to me, to create and control something.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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 exist. It was only an idea, too.

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

I'm not in the service business.

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

What he had hoped for was his ruin and what he had feared his salvation.

Life is as fair as you perceive it to be.

Every dog is a lion at home.

We are making choices that will affect whether beings thousands of generations from now will be able to be born sound of mind and body.

I love having messy hair. I put in a lot of effort to have it look as messy as possible.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution is a duty!

When a silhouette or shape is as beautiful as it is functional and relevant, that's true luxury.

Nothing teems But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burs, Losing both beauty and utility.

If you get stuck to the committed path then... this wall has to be.. KNOCKED DOWN!!