We live in a culture that has a real hard time distinguishing fiction from reality. Even when they're told something is fiction.

Certain experiences you can't survive, and afterward you don't fully exist, even if you failed to die.

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.

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

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.

Faith is the poetry of our dreams

Let the readers do some of the work themselves

A house from which nobody ever went away without feeling better in some way. A house in which there was always laughter.

To the goggling unbeliever Texans say, as people always say about their mangier dishes, 'But it's just like chicken, only tenderer.' Rattlesnake is, in fact, just like chicken - only tougher.

Having a director who is also an actor makes for that very relaxed way of working and it's empowering.

If you went for a job interview in a Glasgow law firm, they used to ask you what school you went to. And that was a way of finding out what religion you were.

Honesty is a big deal, and when your honest everything will fall into place.

And he left. I watched him walk out – he didn’t say good-bye, he didn’t even look back. It scared me, how easy it was for him to do that.

Start moving, a step at a time, step after step. The positive momentum will take you from there.

As a reader I like both great characterization and fast moving plots. The challenge is to balance the both and not compromise one for the other.