Nic Pizzolatto Quotes

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• Certain experiences you can't survive, and afterward you don't fully exist, even if you failed to die.
• 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…
• 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…
• The ideas within this philosophy are certainly not exclusive to any writer,
• 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.
• It’s better to not have a reputation than a bad one.
• Some people, no matter where they look, they see themselves.
• 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…
• I was raised by television. It was my first cultural window. It was a constant companion.
• Art was always for me an escape and a way to relate to the world around me.
• For me as a storyteller, I want to follow the characters and the story through what they organically demand.
• I was raised in a heavily Catholic family. Early and consistent encounters with mysticism.
• Whatever I watched, whatever I loved in 36 years of life on Earth, probably had some influence on me.
• Often, what allows someone to behave heroically in dire circumstances is unpalatable in day-to-day life.
• 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…
• Killing characters on television has become an easy short cut to cathartic emotion.
• 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…
• The idea of being a show runner was very attractive to me, to create and control something.
• I find the constraints of drama actually freeing: It brings everything down to character and action.
• I grew up in a working-class Catholic family in south Louisiana. I went to a state university. I taught literature, wrote a novel that was…

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