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Nic Pizzolatto

American Novelist

Born: Oct 18, 1975

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

Better Reputation Bad Bad One Than

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. Nic Pizzolatto

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

Think Detective Write True Nobody True Detective Likes Doing Scripts

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

First Television Constant Window Cultural Companion Raised

I don't think you can create effectively toward expectation. I'm not in the service business. Nic Pizzolatto

Service You Business Expectation Think Toward Effectively Create

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. Nic Pizzolatto

You Yourself Better Nothing Live Say Tell Would Be Careful Detective True True Detective Die Human Human Beings Stories Theme Beings Careful

I was raised in a heavily Catholic family. Early and consistent encounters with mysticism. Nic Pizzolatto

Family Consistent Mysticism Catholic Encounters Early Raised

Whatever I watched, whatever I loved in 36 years of life on Earth, probably had some influence on me. Nic Pizzolatto

Life Me Whatever Earth Some Had Years Influence Loved Watched

Often, what allows someone to behave heroically in dire circumstances is unpalatable in day-to-day life. Nic Pizzolatto

Life Circumstances Dire Someone Day-To-Day Day-To-Day Life Behave Often

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. Nic Pizzolatto

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

Become Television Characters Easy Emotion Cathartic Short Short Cut Cut

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

Character Action Down Drama Everything Find Constraints Freeing Actually Brings

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. Nic Pizzolatto

Speak Job Characters Individual Come Go Up Authenticity Not Interested Interested Them Your Who Fascinated Compelling

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

Work Pressure Tend Feel Reaction Where Much

In the summer of 2010, I had decided to get into film and TV writing, so I wrote scripts for six different ideas I had developed, and the pilot for 'True Detective' was one of them. Nic Pizzolatto

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. Nic Pizzolatto

Best You Think Approach Background Someone Through Get Committee Just Stories Story Interest Much Creating Necessarily

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. Nic Pizzolatto

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