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. by Nic Pizzolatto 0 Facebook Twitter Google + Pinterest
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. by Nic Pizzolatto 0 Facebook Twitter Google + Pinterest
Whatever story you’re telling in Louisiana the landscape is going to become a character in it. by Nic Pizzolatto 0 Facebook Twitter Google + Pinterest
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. by Nic Pizzolatto 0 Facebook Twitter Google + Pinterest
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. by Nic Pizzolatto 0 Facebook Twitter Google + Pinterest
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. by Nic Pizzolatto 0 Facebook Twitter Google + Pinterest
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. by Nic Pizzolatto 0 Facebook Twitter Google + Pinterest
‘The Atlantic’ really gave me my writing career – even just the conviction to be a writer. by Nic Pizzolatto 0 Facebook Twitter Google + Pinterest
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. by Nic Pizzolatto 0 Facebook Twitter Google + Pinterest
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. by Nic Pizzolatto 0 Facebook Twitter Google + Pinterest
