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
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.
television firsts window
I was raised by television. It was my first cultural window. It was a constant companion.
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.
reputation
It’s better to not have a reputation than a bad one.
summer writing ideas
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.
degrees levels
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.
teaching writing class
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.
books early feeding fiction governing great hbo millennium passions shows tv wave
TV and film were always governing passions of mine, and that first wave of great HBO shows in the early years of the millennium was feeding my desire for fiction more than the books I was reading.
academia admitted good liked
I liked teaching, but the bureaucracy of academia and the petty intrigue... It wasn't a good fit. Once I admitted that myself, that I didn't like academia, I was ready to try TV.
close deserved heroes point recognize
For the finale, I thought the audience deserved to get a close point of view on the monster, and to recognize him the way you recognize the heroes of 'True Detective.'
careful die human stories theme
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.