My manager sent me the first two scripts for 'True Detective,' and I just thought they were so interesting and that the world they were depicting was so titillating to me.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I enjoy setting the scene and coming up with interesting frames. 'True Detective' was a very hands-on set.
There's a lot of two-hander dialogue in 'True Detective,' and I needed to place those guys in locations where there were other levels of visual storytelling. It didn't necessarily have to move the plot forward, but it had to add tone or add to the overall feeling.
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.
'True Detective' did change my career.
I was so nervous that this was 'True Detective' and that I needed to do a good job that I would just dig into every scene.
If I write scripts that nobody likes, I don't think we'll be doing 'True Detective.'
With 'True Detective,' you have a lot of time. How I like to describe it... it's like you're filming a theater piece.
I read a lot of detective novels.
I think a lot of us responded intensely to 'True Detective' because it was so incredibly earnest. That's what made it heartbreaking and involving.
'Police Story' had some of the best writing on television, and one reason for that is because most of the scripts were based on real cases.