101 Quotes by Nic Pizzolatto

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

Whatever I watched, whatever I loved in 36 years of life on Earth, probably had some influence on me.

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.

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.

Some people, no matter where they look, they see themselves.

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.

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.

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.

Whatever story you're telling in Louisiana, the landscape is going to become a character in it.