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In the summer of 2010, I had decided to get into film and TV writing, so I wrote scripts for six different ideas I…

— Nic Pizzolatto

The most credible police shows I've ever seen were 'Barney Miller' on TV and 'The French Connection' movie. They showed the tedious side of…

— Dennis Farina

My manager sent me the first two scripts for 'True Detective,' and I just thought they were so interesting and that the world they…

— Cary Fukunaga

'Criminal Intent' scripts are very good. Like others involved in 'Law & Order' stuff, I've come to appreciate the lack of 'soap,' if you…

— Jamey Sheridan

Crime makes for great drama and it's interesting because it delves into the darker side of us. Those kind of stories go way back,…

— Mark Bonnar

Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature.

— Anonymous

If there was one overarching theme to 'True Detective,' I would say it was that, as human beings, we are nothing but the stories…

— Nic Pizzolatto

The great thing about detective stories, in particular, the case can always be interesting as well as the characters.

— Shane Black

The police genre is capable of holding and shaping many forms of storytelling.

— Lesley Sharp

Medicine is probably one of the best backgrounds for a writer to find stories. I always think cops and docs have the best background…

— Tess Gerritsen

Police thrillers are so widely read and police dramas so commonplace on television that many people think they have a good understanding of what…

— Daniel Horan

I think, in a lot of ways, if you really strip down some of the most compelling novels, in a lot of ways, they're…

— Laura van den Berg