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Nic Pizzolatto

Profession : Novelist

Birth : October 18, 1975

I'd want to bring a flamethrower to faculty meetings. The preciousness of academics and their fragile personalities would not be tolerated in any other business in the known universe.

Nic Pizzolatto

I didn't come to Hollywood to be subservient to anyone else's vision.

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

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Often, what allows someone to behave heroically in dire circumstances is unpalatable in day-to-day life.

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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.

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I enjoy a third act, and I like stories with ending. A lot of my frustration with serialized storytelling is a lot of shows don't have a third act. They have an endless second act, and then they find out it's their last year and often have to hustle to invent a third act, but they were never necessarily organically meaning to begin with.

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In the summer of 2010, I was working on a version of 'True Detective' that I was thinking might be my next novel, and it was told in these two first-person voices; Cohle and Hart's voices.

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Nothing in the television show 'True Detective' was plagiarized.

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For the finale, I thought the audience deserved to get a close point of view on the monster, and to recognize him the way you recognize the heroes of 'True Detective.'

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There are websites of 'True Detective' artwork out there now, and it's beautiful. And I don't want to take that away from anybody. I know what it means to me. But I don't want to take away anyone's interpretation of the show.

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

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We're all born storytellers. It's part of the species. But, more specifically, I suppose a particular combination of sensitivity and trauma made me a writer: an essential disquiet with reality, which required exploration through portrayal.

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The idea of being a show runner was very attractive to me, to create and control something.

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I find the constraints of drama actually freeing: It brings everything down to character and action.

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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.

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It's your job to come up with compelling characters who speak to an individual authenticity. If I'm not interested in the characters, I can't go on. I have to be fascinated by them.

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

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'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.

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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.

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

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