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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 / Novelist
Be Careful
Detective
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 / Novelist
Actors
Anthology
Six Months
Television Shows
Years
Require
Sign
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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 / Novelist
Artwork
Interpretation
Detective
True Detective
Websites
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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 / Novelist
Combination
Exploration
Particular
Portrayal
Sensitivity
Species
Writer
Essential
Suppose
Required
Storytellers
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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 writers ultimate confessional: an absolute horror story, where the self is the monster.
Nic Pizzolatto / Novelist
Philosophy
Powerful
Writing
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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 / Novelist
Conspiracy
Horror
Human Race
Reader
Self
Ultimate
Absolute
Monster
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When you're a confused 19-year-old filled with questions you can't even articulate and a kind of black rage that feeds at your heart from the moment you wake up in the morning, and you discover Marcus Aurelius' 'The Meditations,' that changes your life.
Nic Pizzolatto / Novelist
Confused
Filled
Rage
Wake Up
Articulate
Discover
Feeds
Meditations
Moment
Wake
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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 / Novelist
Catholic
Louisiana
No Idea
Working Class
State University
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I've found that all weak people share a basic obsession - they fixate on the idea of satisfaction. Anywhere you go men and women are like crows drawn by shiny objects. For some folks, the shiny objects are other people, and you'd be better off developing a drug habit.
Nic Pizzolatto / Novelist
Men
Ideas
People
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And if we’re talking about hard-boiled detectives, too, what could be more hardboiled than the worldview of Ligotti or Cioran? They make the grittiest of crime writers seem like dilettantes. Next to The Conspiracy Against the Human Race, Mickey Spillane seems about as hard-boiled as bubble gum.
Nic Pizzolatto / Novelist
Next
Race
Talking
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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 / Novelist
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Oversight
Providing
Scripts
Everyone Else
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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.
Nic Pizzolatto / Novelist
Frustration
Hustle
Last Year
Ending
Invent
Organically
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My ultimare goal is, without illusion and without sentimentality, merely by telling the truth as I see it, to break your heart. If I can break your heart and cause your awareness to expand to include another person's experience, even a fictional person's experience, and to inhabit for a moment their sorrow and suffering, then I think it expands us as people.
Nic Pizzolatto / Novelist
Heart
People
Thinking
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You can't really judge an actor's abilities by their career, because the business is going to pigeonhole people into whatever turns a profit, and no artist is less in charge of how their work is presented than an actor, the appeal of Vince was that within a great naturalism, he can convey fierce intelligence, complex emotion, and a real warmth married to a real edge, strength and vulnerability and danger and humor. There are essential contradictions at work that makes him fascinating to watch.
Nic Pizzolatto / Novelist
Strength
Artist
Careers
Real
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