Quotes by Nic Pizzolatto

About Nic Pizzolatto:

Nicholas Austin "Nic" Pizzolatto is an American novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, and producer. He is best known for creating the HBO crime drama series True Detective.
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Art was always for me an escape and a way to relate to the world around me.

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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.

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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.

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If I write scripts that nobody likes, I don't think we'll be doing 'True Detective.'

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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.

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I was raised by television. It was my first cultural window. It was a constant companion.

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It's better to not have a reputation than a bad one.

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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.

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For me as a storyteller, I want to follow the characters and the story through what they organically demand.

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I grew up with adults who believed the Virgin Mary was appearing in Medjugorje, Yugoslavia. They held prayer meetings where they closed their eyes and claimed to see visions, and we were prepped for the end of the world throughout grade school. So th...

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I didn't come to Hollywood to be subservient to anyone else's vision.

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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 ...

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Nothing in the television show 'True Detective' was plagiarized.

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

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

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

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Whatever story you're telling in Louisiana, the landscape is going to become a character in it.

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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.

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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.

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For me, the worst writing generally just 'flips' things: this person's really a traitor; it was all a dream; etc. Nothing is so ruinous as a forced 'twist,' I think.

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Author Bio

  • NameNic Pizzolatto
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • Born1975
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Screenwriter