Nic Pizzolatto Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

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“Certain experiences you can't survive, and afterward you don't fully exist, even if you failed to die.”
-- Nic Pizzolatto

#Certain
“I've found that all weak people share a basic obsession - they fixate on the idea of satisfaction. Anywhere you go men and women are like crows drawn by shiny objects. For some folks, the shiny objects are other people, and you'd be better off developing a drug habit.”
-- Nic Pizzolatto

#Men #Ideas #People
“Often, what allows someone to behave heroically in dire circumstances is unpalatable in day-to-day life.”
-- Nic Pizzolatto

#Circumstances #Behave
“The Atlantic really gave me my writing career - even just the conviction to be a writer.”
-- Nic Pizzolatto

#Writing #Careers #Conviction
“Whatever story you're telling in Louisiana, the landscape is going to become a character in it.”
-- Nic Pizzolatto

#Character #Landscape #Louisiana
“Killing characters on television has become an easy short cut to cathartic emotion.”
-- Nic Pizzolatto

#Character #Cutting #Television
“The work is where I tend to feel pressure - not so much in the reaction to it.”
-- Nic Pizzolatto

#Pressure #Reactions #Feels
“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

#Kitchen #Television #Detectives
“The idea of being a show runner was very attractive to me, to create and control something.”
-- Nic Pizzolatto

#Ideas #Attractive #Shows
“I knew the past wasn't real. It was only an idea, and the thing I'd wanted to touch, to brush against, the feeling I couldn't name - it just didn't exist. It was only an idea, too.”
-- Nic Pizzolatto

#Real #Past #Names
“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

#Thinking #Creating #Stories
“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.”
-- Nic Pizzolatto

#People #Able
“I don't think you can create effectively toward expectation. I'm not in the service business.”
-- Nic Pizzolatto

#Thinking #Expectations
“I find the constraints of drama actually freeing: It brings everything down to character and action.”
-- Nic Pizzolatto

#Drama #Character #Action
“I was raised in a heavily Catholic family. Early and consistent encounters with mysticism.”
-- Nic Pizzolatto

#Catholic #Encounters #Consistent
“If landscape is a character for me, then it helps if I'm familiar with it and I already have a take on it.”
-- Nic Pizzolatto

#Character #Landscape #Helping
“Art was always for me an escape and a way to relate to the world around me,”
-- Nic Pizzolatto

#Art #Way #World
“I'm not in the service business.”
-- Nic Pizzolatto
“And if weâ€™re talking about hard-boiled detectives, too, what could be more hardboiled than the worldview of Ligotti or Cioran? They make the grittiest of crime writers seem like dilettantes. Next to The Conspiracy Against the Human Race, Mickey Spillane seems about as hard-boiled as bubble gum.”
-- Nic Pizzolatto

#Talking #Race #Gum
“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

#Summer #Writing #Ideas
“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 Harts voices.”
-- Nic Pizzolatto

#Summer #Thinking #Two
“As human beings, we are nothing but the stories we live and die by â€” so youâ€™d better be careful what stories you tell yourself.”
-- Nic Pizzolatto

#Stories #Be Careful #Careful
“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

#Teaching #Writing #Class
“If I write scripts that nobody likes, I don't think we'll be doing 'True Detective.'”
-- Nic Pizzolatto

#Writing #Thinking #Detectives
“For me as a storyteller, I want to follow the characters and the story through what they organically demand.”
-- Nic Pizzolatto

#Character #Demand #Want
“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 writers ultimate confessional: an absolute horror story, where the self is the monster.”
-- Nic Pizzolatto

#Powerful #Philosophy #Writing
“Whatever I watched, whatever I loved in 36 years of life on Earth, probably had some influence on me.”
-- Nic Pizzolatto

#Years #Earth #Influence
“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.”
-- Nic Pizzolatto

#Years #Television #Four
“I didn't come to Hollywood to be subservient to anyone else's vision.”
-- Nic Pizzolatto

#Vision #Hollywood
“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.”
-- Nic Pizzolatto

#Degrees #Levels

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