All Nic Pizzolatto Quotes
- Certain experiences you can't survive, and afterward you don't fully exist, even if you failed to die. Afterward
- 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… All
- 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… Brush
- The ideas within this philosophy are certainly not exclusive to any writer, Any
- 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. Beings
- It’s better to not have a reputation than a bad one. Bad
- Some people, no matter where they look, they see themselves. Inspirational
- 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… Boiled
- I was raised by television. It was my first cultural window. It was a constant companion. Companion
- Art was always for me an escape and a way to relate to the world around me. Art
- For me as a storyteller, I want to follow the characters and the story through what they organically demand. Characters
- I was raised in a heavily Catholic family. Early and consistent encounters with mysticism. Catholic
- Whatever I watched, whatever I loved in 36 years of life on Earth, probably had some influence on me. Earth
- Often, what allows someone to behave heroically in dire circumstances is unpalatable in day-to-day life. Allows
- 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… Actor
- Killing characters on television has become an easy short cut to cathartic emotion. Cathartic
- 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… Books
- The idea of being a show runner was very attractive to me, to create and control something. Attractive
- I find the constraints of drama actually freeing: It brings everything down to character and action. 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… Catholic
- The work is where I tend to feel pressure - not so much in the reaction to it. Feel
- 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,… Anything Else