I didn't come to Hollywood to be subservient to anyone else's vision. Nic Pizzolatto More Quotes by Nic Pizzolatto More Quotes From Nic Pizzolatto The Atlantic really gave me my writing career - even just the conviction to be a writer. Nic Pizzolatto convictioncareerswriting The idea of being a show runner was very attractive to me, to create and control something. Nic Pizzolatto attractiveshowsideas 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. Nic Pizzolatto kitchendetectivestelevision 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. Nic Pizzolatto degreeslevels 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. Nic Pizzolatto teachingwritingclass If I write scripts that nobody likes, I don't think we'll be doing 'True Detective.' Nic Pizzolatto likeswritingthinking I was raised in a heavily Catholic family. Early and consistent encounters with mysticism. Nic Pizzolatto encountersconsistentcatholic If landscape is a character for me, then it helps if I'm familiar with it and I already have a take on it. Nic Pizzolatto landscapehelpingcharacter Art was always for me an escape and a way to relate to the world around me. Nic Pizzolatto wayworldart 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. Nic Pizzolatto do-the-bestablepeople 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. Nic Pizzolatto summertwothinking 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. Nic Pizzolatto summerwritingideas I read The Conspiracy Against the Human Race and found it incredibly powerful writing. For me as a reader, it was less impactful as philosophy than as one writers ultimate confessional: an absolute horror story, where the self is the monster. Nic Pizzolatto powerfulwritingphilosophy I find the constraints of drama actually freeing: It brings everything down to character and action. Nic Pizzolatto actioncharacterdrama I don't think you can create effectively toward expectation. I'm not in the service business. Nic Pizzolatto service-businessexpectationsthinking Some people, no matter where they look, they see themselves. Nic Pizzolatto matterpeoplelooks I always thought Vince was a great actor, from when he first broke in, doing these interesting and intense performances in the mid-’90s — I remember these independent dramas he was just great in, in his maturity I think he wears his history in a rugged, old-school manner. I see echoes of Robert Mitchum and James Garner in the kind of figure he cuts, and I think it’s going to be gratifying for people to see his skills put to this kind of use. Nic Pizzolatto entertainment 'True Detective' is a densely layered work with resonant details and symbology and rich characterization under the guise of one of the forms of this mystery genre. That's what we shoot for. Nic Pizzolatto truerichmysterywork 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. Nic Pizzolatto moremebornreality 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.' Nic Pizzolatto viewthoughtyouway
