Nic Pizzolatto quotes

Art was always for me an escape and a way to relate to the world around me. (Nic Pizzolatto)
I was raised in a heavily Catholic family. Early and consistent encounters with mysticism. View quote
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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. View quote
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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.' View quote
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For me as a storyteller, I want to follow the characters and the story through what they organically demand. View quote
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The work is where I tend to feel pressure - not so much in the reaction to it. View quote
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You just do the best you can, and when you're able to connect with people, and when you do, it's just incredibly gratifying. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I was raised by television. It was my first cultural window. It was a constant companion. View quote
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The idea of being a show runner was very attractive to me, to create and control something. (Nic Pizzolatto)
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. View quote
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Whatever I watched, whatever I loved in 36 years of life on Earth, probably had some influence on me. View quote
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Often, what allows someone to behave heroically in dire circumstances is unpalatable in day-to-day life. View quote
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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. View quote
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Killing characters on television has become an easy short cut to cathartic emotion. View quote
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I find the constraints of drama actually freeing: It brings everything down to character and action. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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As someone with a novelistic background, I just didn't have much interest in creating stories by committee. I don't think you necessarily get the best story through that approach. View quote
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Whatever story you're telling in Louisiana, the landscape is going to become a character in it. (Nic Pizzolatto)
It's better to not have a reputation than a bad one. View quote
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The Atlantic really gave me my writing career - even just the conviction to be a writer. View quote
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If landscape is a character for me, then it helps if I'm familiar with it and I already have a take on it. View quote
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I didn't come to Hollywood to be subservient to anyone else's vision. View quote
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Nic Pizzolatto

Occupation: American Novelist
Born: October 18, 1975
Quotes count: 26