Toggle navigation
Home
Topics
Authors
Professions
Picture Quotes
Users
Join Us Now!
Login
Latest Quotes
If landscape is a character for me, then it helps if I'm familiar with it and I already have a take on it.
~ Nic Pizzolatto
Character
Familiar
Helps
Landscape
Me
Take
Then
design
copy
If I write scripts that nobody likes, I don't think we'll be doing 'True Detective.'
~ Nic Pizzolatto
Detective
Doing
I Write
Likes
Nobody
Scripts
Think
True
True Detective
Write
design
copy
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
Academics
Any
Bring
Business
Faculty
Fragile
Known
Meetings
Other
Personalities
Tolerated
Universe
Want
Would
design
copy
I was raised in a heavily Catholic family. Early and consistent encounters with mysticism.
~ Nic Pizzolatto
Catholic
Consistent
Early
Encounters
Family
I Was Raised
Mysticism
Raised
design
copy
I was raised by television. It was my first cultural window. It was a constant companion.
~ Nic Pizzolatto
Companion
Constant
Cultural
First
I Was Raised
Raised
Television
Window
design
copy
I read 'The Conspiracy Against the Human Race' and found it incredibly powerful writing. For me as a reader, it was less impactful as philosophy than as one writer's ultimate confessional: an absolute horror story, where the self is the monster.
~ Nic Pizzolatto
Absolute
Against
Conspiracy
Found
Horror
Human
Human Race
Incredibly
Less
Me
Monster
Philosophy
Powerful
Race
Read
Reader
Self
Story
Than
Ultimate
Where
Writer
Writing
design
copy
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.
~ Nic Pizzolatto
Detective
Ever
Everything
Going
Kitchen
Kitchen Sink
Like
Made
Only
Put
Sink
Television
The Only Thing
Thing
True
True Detective
design
copy
I liked teaching, but the bureaucracy of academia and the petty intrigue... It wasn't a good fit. Once I admitted that myself, that I didn't like academia, I was ready to try TV.
~ Nic Pizzolatto
Academia
Admitted
Bureaucracy
Fit
Good
Intrigue
Like
Liked
Myself
Once
Petty
Ready
Teaching
Try
TV
design
copy
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.
~ Nic Pizzolatto
Angeles
Chicago
Creative
Creative Writing
Indiana
Job
Left
Los
Los Angeles
Program
Then
University
Writing
design
copy
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
Allow
Anyone
Anyone Else
By The Time
Could
Detective
Develop
Else
Experience
Expressed
Had
HBO
Interest
Knew
Real
Something
Still
Time
True
True Detective
design
copy
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
Contradictory
Formative
Grew
Louisiana
Nature
Place
Quality
Sinister
Sort
Spent
Underneath
Up
Years
design
copy
I grew up in a working-class Catholic family in south Louisiana. I went to a state university. I taught literature, wrote a novel that was the novel I wanted to write, and got a couple of good reviews but no real traction. I had no idea how to get a job in TV.
~ Nic Pizzolatto
Catholic
Couple
Family
Get
Good
Got
Grew
Had
How
Idea
Job
Literature
Louisiana
No Idea
Novel
Real
Reviews
South
State
State University
Taught
TV
University
Up
Wanted
Working-Class
Write
Wrote
design
copy
I find the constraints of drama actually freeing: It brings everything down to character and action.
~ Nic Pizzolatto
Action
Actually
Brings
Character
Constraints
Down
Drama
Everything
Find
Freeing
design
copy
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.
~ Nic Pizzolatto
Act
Begin
Ending
Endless
Enjoy
Find
Frustration
Hustle
Invent
Last
Last Year
Like
Lot
Meaning
Necessarily
Never
Often
Organically
Out
Second
Shows
Stories
Storytelling
Then
Third
Were
Year
design
copy
I don't think you can create effectively toward expectation. I'm not in the service business.
~ Nic Pizzolatto
Business
Create
Effectively
Expectation
Service
Think
Toward
You
design
copy
I didn't come to Hollywood to be subservient to anyone else's vision.
~ Nic Pizzolatto
Anyone
Come
Else
Hollywood
Vision
design
copy
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.'
~ Nic Pizzolatto
Audience
Close
Deserved
Detective
Finale
Get
Heroes
Him
Monster
Point
Recognize
Thought
True
True Detective
View
Way
You
design
copy
For me, the worst writing generally just 'flips' things: this person's really a traitor; it was all a dream; etc. Nothing is so ruinous as a forced 'twist,' I think.
~ Nic Pizzolatto
Dream
Etc
Flips
Forced
Generally
I Think
Just
Me
Nothing
Person
Really
Things
Think
Traitor
Twist
Worst
Writing
design
copy
For me as a storyteller, I want to follow the characters and the story through what they organically demand.
~ Nic Pizzolatto
Characters
Demand
Follow
Me
Organically
Story
Storyteller
Through
Want
design
copy
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
Anything
Anything Else
Classes
Else
Fiction
Form
Liked
More
More Than Anything
Narrative
Novel
Teach
Teaching
Than
Theory
Things
Those
Wanted
Were
Writing
design
copy
«first
‹previous
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
next›
last»
Total Records :
510998
Quote Maker
×
download
High Quality
BG
Logo
Watermark
W BG
×
Please use a modern browser as Chrome. The browser you are using doesn't have this feature.
Please use a modern browser as Chrome. The browser you are using doesn't have this feature.
Related Books
Share to your friends..
Share quotes with
Quote Fellas
Join Quote Fellas
Like Us!!
Quote Fellas
Popular Topics
Attitude
Death
Inspirational
Life
Love
Motivational
Nature
Positive