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.
Often, what allows someone to behave heroically in dire circumstances is unpalatable in day-to-day life.
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 li...
We live in a culture that has a real hard time distinguishing fiction from reality. Even when they're told something is fiction.
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.
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.
The work is where I tend to feel pressure - not so much in the reaction to it.
'True Detective' is a densely layered work with resonant details and symbology and rich characterization under the guise of one of the forms of this mystery genre. That's what we shoot for.
