Quotes by Nic Pizzolatto

Nic Pizzolatto

And if we’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.

Race

Talking

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.

Be Careful

Humans

Stories

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.

Class

Teaching

Writing

For me as a storyteller, I want to follow the characters and the story through what they organically demand.

Character

Demand

Stories

I didn’t come to Hollywood to be subservient to anyone else’s vision.

Hollywood

Subservient

Vision

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

Expectations

Service Business

Thinking

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

Action

Character

Drama

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.

Detectives

Kitchen

Television

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.

Ideas

Men

People

My ultimare goal is, without illusion and without sentimentality, merely by telling the truth as I see it, to break your heart. If I can break your heart and cause your awareness to expand to include another person’s experience, even a fictional person’s experience, and to inhabit for a moment their sorrow and suffering, then I think it expands us as people.

Heart

People

Thinking

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Action

Artist

Be Careful

Behave

Careers

Character

Circumstances

Class

Conviction

Culture

Day Life

Degrees

Demand

Detectives

Drama

Earth

Exclusive

Expectations

Feels

Hard Times

Heart

Hollywood

Humans

Ideas

Influence

Kitchen

Levels

Looks

Matter

Men

People

Philosophy

Pressure

Race

Reactions

Real

Service Business

Stories

Strength

Subservient

Talking

Teaching

Television

Thinking

Vision

Writing

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Quotes by Nic Pizzolatto

Nic Pizzolatto

And if we’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.

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.

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.

For me as a storyteller, I want to follow the characters and the story through what they organically demand.

I didn’t come to Hollywood to be subservient to anyone else’s vision.

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

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

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.

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.

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