“For the finale, I thought the audience deserved to get a close point o...” — Nic Pizzolatto Quote

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.'

I left the University of Chicago's creative writing program for a tenure-track job at DePauw University in Indiana, then left DePauw in 2010 for Los Angeles.

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

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

The conspiracies that I've researched and encountered, they seem to happen very ad hoc: they become conspiracies when it's necessary to have a conspiracy.

Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child.

I think all the people I met at the club at Swansea, they deserved the respect they showed me over the time I was there.

Regardless of any thing that I've done that people might think, 'Oh, well, that deserved a scarlet letter,' that's not how it works.

If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved.

He that hath deserved hanging may be glad to escape with a whipping.