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Whatever story you're telling in Louisiana, the landscape is going to become a character in it.
~ Nic Pizzolatto
Become
Character
Going
Landscape
Louisiana
Story
Telling
Whatever
You
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Whatever I watched, whatever I loved in 36 years of life on Earth, probably had some influence on me.
~ Nic Pizzolatto
Earth
Had
Influence
Life
Loved
Me
Some
Watched
Whatever
Years
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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.
~ Nic Pizzolatto
Born
Combination
Essential
Exploration
Made
Me
More
Part
Particular
Reality
Required
Sensitivity
Species
Specifically
Storytellers
Suppose
Through
Trauma
Which
Writer
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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.
~ Nic Pizzolatto
Culture
Distinguishing
Even
Fiction
Hard
Hard Time
Live
Real
Reality
Something
Time
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TV and film were always governing passions of mine, and that first wave of great HBO shows in the early years of the millennium was feeding my desire for fiction more than the books I was reading.
~ Nic Pizzolatto
Always
Books
Desire
Early
Early Years
Feeding
Fiction
Film
First
Governing
Great
HBO
Millennium
Mine
More
Passions
Reading
Shows
Than
TV
TV And Film
Wave
Were
Years
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There's never been anything I didn't love that I didn't connect with on a personal level because, to some degree, I projected upon it.
~ Nic Pizzolatto
Anything
Because
Been
Connect
Degree
Level
Love
Never
Personal
Personal Level
Projected
Some
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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.
~ Nic Pizzolatto
Anybody
Anyone
Artwork
Away
Beautiful
Detective
Interpretation
Know
Me
Means
Now
Out
Show
Take
True
True Detective
Want
Websites
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The work is where I tend to feel pressure - not so much in the reaction to it.
~ Nic Pizzolatto
Feel
Much
Pressure
Reaction
Tend
Where
Work
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The idea of being a show runner was very attractive to me, to create and control something.
~ Nic Pizzolatto
Attractive
Being
Control
Create
Idea
Me
Runner
Show
Something
Very
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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.
~ Nic Pizzolatto
Ad
Become
Conspiracy
Encountered
Happen
Necessary
Seem
Very
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Often, what allows someone to behave heroically in dire circumstances is unpalatable in day-to-day life.
~ Nic Pizzolatto
Behave
Circumstances
Day-To-Day
Day-To-Day Life
Dire
Life
Often
Someone
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Nothing in the television show 'True Detective' was plagiarized.
~ Nic Pizzolatto
Detective
Nothing
Show
Television
Television Show
True
True Detective
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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.
~ Nic Pizzolatto
Actor
Actor
Amount
Attracted
Five
Four
Going
Might
Months
Most
Really
Require
Serious
Show
Shows
Sign
Six
Television
Television Shows
Thought
Up
Years
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Killing characters on television has become an easy short cut to cathartic emotion.
~ Nic Pizzolatto
Become
Cathartic
Characters
Cut
Easy
Emotion
Short
Short Cut
Television
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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.
~ Nic Pizzolatto
Authenticity
Characters
Come
Compelling
Fascinated
Go
Individual
Interested
Job
Not Interested
Speak
Them
Up
Who
Your
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It's better to not have a reputation than a bad one.
~ Nic Pizzolatto
Bad
Bad One
Better
Reputation
Than
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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.
~ Nic Pizzolatto
Detective
First-Person
Hart
Might
Next
Novel
Summer
Thinking
True
True Detective
Two
Version
Voices
Working
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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
Decided
Detective
Developed
Different
Different Ideas
Film
Film And TV
Get
Had
Ideas
Pilot
Scripts
Six
Summer
Them
True
True Detective
TV
Writing
Wrote
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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
Actor
Allowing
Been
Certain
Creative
Else
Everyone
Everyone Else
Get
Hands-On
How
Kind
Know
Learner
Made
Making
Material
Mostly
Need
Oversight
Own
Providing
Room
Scripts
Sure
Then
Too
While
Writers
You
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If there was one overarching theme to 'True Detective,' I would say it was that, as human beings, we are nothing but the stories we live and die by - so you'd better be careful what stories you tell yourself.
~ Nic Pizzolatto
Be Careful
Beings
Better
Careful
Detective
Die
Human
Human Beings
Live
Nothing
Say
Stories
Tell
Theme
True
True Detective
Would
You
Yourself
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