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
character cutting television
Killing characters on television has become an easy short cut to cathartic emotion.
reputation
It’s better to not have a reputation than a bad one.
character landscape louisiana
Whatever story you're telling in Louisiana, the landscape is going to become a character in it.
writing careers conviction
The Atlantic really gave me my writing career - even just the conviction to be a writer.
thinking creating stories
As someone with a novelistic background, I just didn't have much interest in creating stories by committee. I don't think you necessarily get the best story through that approach.
real past names
I knew the past wasn't real. It was only an idea, and the thing I'd wanted to touch, to brush against, the feeling I couldn't name - it just didn't exist. It was only an idea, too.
stories be-careful humans
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.
television firsts window
I was raised by television. It was my first cultural window. It was a constant companion.
philosophy ideas exclusive
The ideas within this philosophy are certainly not exclusive to any writer,
service-business
I'm not in the service business.
circumstances behave day-life
Often, what allows someone to behave heroically in dire circumstances is unpalatable in day-to-day life.
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.
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.
real hard-times fiction
We live in a culture that has a real hard time distinguishing fiction from reality. Even when they're told something is fiction.