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Nic Pizzolatto Quotes

American - Novelist | October 18, 1975 -

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

Short Easy Television Become Emotion

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.'

Thought View You Point Of View True

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.

Beautiful Me Know Now Want True

We live in a culture that has a real hard time distinguishing fiction from reality. Even when they're told something is fiction.

Live Time Culture Reality Hard Real

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.

Me Reality Exploration Born Trauma

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.

Great Reading Wave Early Desire

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

Me Control Create Being Something

I find the constraints of drama actually freeing: It brings everything down to character and action.

Character Action Find Down Drama

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.

Family Good Job Literature Write Up

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.

Time Experience True Real Something

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.

Job Speak Go Authenticity Individual

The work is where I tend to feel pressure - not so much in the reaction to it.

Work Pressure Feel Reaction Where

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