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
years earth influence
Whatever I watched, whatever I loved in 36 years of life on Earth, probably had some influence on me.
character landscape helping
If landscape is a character for me, then it helps if I'm familiar with it and I already have a take on it.
catholic encounters consistent
I was raised in a heavily Catholic family. Early and consistent encounters with mysticism.
people able do-the-best
You just do the best you can, and when you're able to connect with people, and when you do, it's just incredibly gratifying.
ideas attractive shows
The idea of being a show runner was very attractive to me, to create and control something.
drama character action
I find the constraints of drama actually freeing: It brings everything down to character and action.
kitchen television detectives
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.
thinking expectations service-business
I don't think you can create effectively toward expectation. I'm not in the service business.
art way world
Art was always for me an escape and a way to relate to the world around me,
people matter looks
Some people, no matter where they look, they see themselves.
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.
vision hollywood subservient
I didn't come to Hollywood to be subservient to anyone else's vision.
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.
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.