Nic Pizzolatto
Nic Pizzolatto
Nicholas Austin "Nic" Pizzolattois an American novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, and producer. He is best known for creating the HBO crime drama series True Detective...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth18 October 1975
CityNew Orleans, LA
CountryUnited States of America
Nic Pizzolatto quotes about
forced generally worst
For me, the worst writing generally just 'flips' things: this person's really a traitor; it was all a dream; etc. Nothing is so ruinous as a forced 'twist,' I think.
conscience deal death good hit people talking
You know how people say that young people feel immortal? I don't know what they're talking about. I was planning for how I would deal with my death in good conscience well before I even hit puberty.
certain dies ifs
Certain experiences you can't survive, and afterward you don't fully exist, even if you failed to die.
strength real artist
You can't really judge an actor's abilities by their career, because the business is going to pigeonhole people into whatever turns a profit, and no artist is less in charge of how their work is presented than an actor, the appeal of Vince was that within a great naturalism, he can convey fierce intelligence, complex emotion, and a real warmth married to a real edge, strength and vulnerability and danger and humor. There are essential contradictions at work that makes him fascinating to watch.
talking race gum
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.
circumstances behave day-life
Often, what allows someone to behave heroically in dire circumstances is unpalatable in day-to-day life.
philosophy ideas exclusive
The ideas within this philosophy are certainly not exclusive to any writer,
television firsts window
I was raised by television. It was my first cultural window. It was a constant companion.
character landscape louisiana
Whatever story you're telling in Louisiana, the landscape is going to become a character in it.
character cutting television
Killing characters on television has become an easy short cut to cathartic emotion.
years six-months actors
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.
heart thinking goal
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.
catholic encounters consistent
I was raised in a heavily Catholic family. Early and consistent encounters with mysticism.
service-business
I'm not in the service business.