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I didn't expect anything crazy to happen from 'True Detective.'

A working detective has no hope of understanding what even experts who devote their lives to the study of criminal psychology can't figure out.

Detective fiction could not have existed without Edgar Allan Poe.

Yes, the Bechdel Test. It's named for Allison Bechdel, who is a comic book creator. The test is, are there two named women in the film? Do they talk to each other? And is it about something other than a man? I actually think the Bechdel Test is a little advanced for us sometimes.

'True Detective' did change my career.

I'm not a great student, so I don't know that I would have been a great detective. Part of my brain sort of works that way, like wanting to figure out puzzles and figure out what happened and why people do the things they do and who they are and how it happened.

The thing I don't like about detective stories is looking for criminals.

The queen of crime, Agatha Christie, was always more concerned about the clockwork cleverness of the plot, never the investigator.

In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.