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

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.

Learn, only to live. Live, only to learn.

People seldom change. Only their masks do. It is only our perception of them and the perception they have of themselves that actually change.

It was easier when all we wanted to do was eat them and take their stuff,” he grumbled. And it had been easier when he hadn’t cared if he made any of them cry.

I hate Mcdonalds... but i'm forced to eat it.

I do love television. But the business is accelerating and people are not getting the chance to fail.

The discrepancy between what actually happened and the version of what happened provided by sources is an enormous gray area.

Our job as Americans and as Republicans is to dislodge the traitors from every place where they've been sent to do their traitorous work.

Life is multi-layered and there's no way I could do my life justice in one pat answer.

So, at the age of nine, I became a monk, and from then on I was there practicing that kind of nonviolence.

If you have to explain about how something's supposed to feel, it takes away all the magic.