I find the constraints of drama actually freeing: It brings everything down to character and action. Nic Pizzolatto More Quotes by Nic Pizzolatto More Quotes From Nic Pizzolatto Certain experiences you can't survive, and afterward you don't fully exist, even if you failed to die. Nic Pizzolatto fateexperiencedying I've found that all weak people share a basic obsession - they fixate on the idea of satisfaction. Anywhere you go men and women are like crows drawn by shiny objects. For some folks, the shiny objects are other people, and you'd be better off developing a drug habit. Nic Pizzolatto menpeopleideas We live in a culture that has a real hard time distinguishing fiction from reality. Even when they're told something is fiction. Nic Pizzolatto hard-timesrealculture And if we’re talking about hard-boiled detectives, too, what could be more hardboiled than the worldview of Ligotti or Cioran? They make the grittiest of crime writers seem like dilettantes. Next to The Conspiracy Against the Human Race, Mickey Spillane seems about as hard-boiled as bubble gum. Nic Pizzolatto nextracetalking Often, what allows someone to behave heroically in dire circumstances is unpalatable in day-to-day life. Nic Pizzolatto day-lifebehavecircumstances My ultimare goal is, without illusion and without sentimentality, merely by telling the truth as I see it, to break your heart. If I can break your heart and cause your awareness to expand to include another person's experience, even a fictional person's experience, and to inhabit for a moment their sorrow and suffering, then I think it expands us as people. Nic Pizzolatto heartpeoplethinking You can't really judge an actor's abilities by their career, because the business is going to pigeonhole people into whatever turns a profit, and no artist is less in charge of how their work is presented than an actor, the appeal of Vince was that within a great naturalism, he can convey fierce intelligence, complex emotion, and a real warmth married to a real edge, strength and vulnerability and danger and humor. There are essential contradictions at work that makes him fascinating to watch. Nic Pizzolatto strengthartistreal 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. Nic Pizzolatto be-carefulhumansstories 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. Nic Pizzolatto realnamespast Whatever story you're telling in Louisiana, the landscape is going to become a character in it. Nic Pizzolatto louisianastoriescharacter Killing characters on television has become an easy short cut to cathartic emotion. Nic Pizzolatto cuttingcharactertelevision The work is where I tend to feel pressure - not so much in the reaction to it. Nic Pizzolatto reactionspressurefeels For me as a storyteller, I want to follow the characters and the story through what they organically demand. Nic Pizzolatto demandstoriescharacter Whatever I watched, whatever I loved in 36 years of life on Earth, probably had some influence on me. Nic Pizzolatto influenceearthyears I'm not in the service business. Nic Pizzolatto service-business It’s better to not have a reputation than a bad one. Nic Pizzolatto reputation The ideas within this philosophy are certainly not exclusive to any writer. Nic Pizzolatto exclusivephilosophyideas 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. Nic Pizzolatto six-monthsactorsyears 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. Nic Pizzolatto creatingstoriesthinking I was raised by television. It was my first cultural window. It was a constant companion. Nic Pizzolatto televisionwindowfirsts
