Killing characters on television has become an easy short cut to cathartic emotion.

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.

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.

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.

Small tyrants, threatened by big, sincerely believethey love liberty.

The knowing is easy. It's the doing that gives us trouble.

I grew up cursing a lot. It felt natural. My parents told me to stop.

The saddest day in Pixar history was when some guy said 'get Larry the Cable Guy on the phone.

Love - is when you wish all the best to the people you love, when you put their interests and well-being above their own. Always.

To be engaged in some small way in the revival of one of the great cities of the world is to live a meaningful existence by default.

I am so grateful to be a writer. I hope every child grows up and finds something to do that will seem important and that will seem precious. Happy living and, especially, happy playing.

Dresses that are truly beautiful are never unfashionable.

If a train stops at a train station, what do you think happens at a work station?

The two sides of the equation are the same. We have a tautology. The definition is meaningless.