Zitat des Tages von Nic Pizzolatto:
Art was always for me an escape and a way to relate to the world around me.
I grew up in a working-class Catholic family in south Louisiana. I went to a state university. I taught literature, wrote a novel that was the novel I wanted to write, and got a couple of good reviews but no real traction. I had no idea how to get a job in TV.
Most television shows are going to require an actor sign up from four to six years, but an anthology show really amounts to five or six months at the most. I thought serious actors might be attracted to that.
I'd want to bring a flamethrower to faculty meetings. The preciousness of academics and their fragile personalities would not be tolerated in any other business in the known universe.
If you are a certain kind of hands-on learner and have been in a writers room and know how scripts get made, and you know what pre-production is, then mostly it's making sure the actors get what they need, and you are providing creative oversight while allowing room for everyone else to own the material, too.
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.
If I write scripts that nobody likes, I don't think we'll be doing 'True Detective.'
It's better to not have a reputation than a bad one.
Killing characters on television has become an easy short cut to cathartic emotion.
I don't think you can create effectively toward expectation. I'm not in the service business.
I didn't come to Hollywood to be subservient to anyone else's vision.
Often, what allows someone to behave heroically in dire circumstances is unpalatable in day-to-day life.
Whatever I watched, whatever I loved in 36 years of life on Earth, probably had some influence on me.
For the finale, I thought the audience deserved to get a close point of view on the monster, and to recognize him the way you recognize the heroes of 'True Detective.'
If landscape is a character for me, then it helps if I'm familiar with it and I already have a take on it.
TV and film were always governing passions of mine, and that first wave of great HBO shows in the early years of the millennium was feeding my desire for fiction more than the books I was reading.
We're all born storytellers. It's part of the species. But, more specifically, I suppose a particular combination of sensitivity and trauma made me a writer: an essential disquiet with reality, which required exploration through portrayal.
For me, the worst writing generally just 'flips' things: this person's really a traitor; it was all a dream; etc. Nothing is so ruinous as a forced 'twist,' I think.
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.
I find the constraints of drama actually freeing: It brings everything down to character and action.
Whatever story you're telling in Louisiana, the landscape is going to become a character in it.
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 best story through that approach.
