“What happens when you get any kind of entrenched power is that it just...” — Irvine Welsh Quote

What happens when you get any kind of entrenched power is that it just becomes kind of corrupt and self-serving.

'True Detective' was the last show I got crazy about, with its 'Silence of the Lambs'-style landscape and those strip mall badlands of America.

It's very difficult to be objective about yourself and your own circumstances, but one thing I do know about is that I grew up surrounded by storytellers.

I've been doing a bit of screenwriting and producing, and even a bit of directing.

For 'Filth,' we had about 12 producers on the thing. The opening credits go on for months. Most of them are actually financers rather than producers. And the only way that we could raise the budget without interference from a studio was to have a lot of different financers on board.

Congress is corrupt, gridlocked, broken, dysfunctional. It's not working and we need it working again. It's not going to get fixed by people who are deeply, in one way or another, inside this really broken system.

People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.

D.C. is more corrupt than Hollywood. It really is.

The impression of Pakistan is that people are corrupt. I don't think they are as corrupt as they are made out to be. I can look you in the eye and tell you I've never bribed anybody.

If something can corrupt you, you're corrupted already.