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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
If you are a certain kind of hands-on learner and have been in a writers room and know how scripts get made, and you know what pre-production is, then mostly it’s making sure the actors get what they need, and you are providing creative oversight while allowing room for everyone else to own the material, too. Nic Pizzolatto Read Quote
I grew up in Louisiana and spent my formative years there. There’s a contradictory nature to the place and a sort of sinister quality underneath it all. Nic Pizzolatto Read Quote
Whatever story you’re telling in Louisiana, the landscape is going to become a character in it. Nic Pizzolatto Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I knew ‘True Detective’ wasn’t something I could allow anyone else to develop. But by the time HBO expressed an interest, I still had no real experience. Nic Pizzolatto Read Quote
I find the constraints of drama actually freeing: It brings everything down to character and action. Nic Pizzolatto Read Quote
The idea of being a show runner was very attractive to me, to create and control something. Nic Pizzolatto Read Quote
