Quote

For me as a storyteller, I want to follow the characters and the story through what they organically demand.

Nic Pizzolatto

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Nic Pizzolatto
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: October 18
Film Producer
Novelist
Screenwriter
Showrunner
Television Producer
University Teacher
Writer
New Orleans
Louisiana
Nicholas Austin Pizzolatto
Organically
Storyteller
Demand
Characters
Follow
Story
Stories
Character

More quotes by Nic Pizzolatto

Image
In the summer of 2010, I had decided to get into film and TV writing, so I wrote scripts for six different ideas I had developed, and the pilot for True Detective was one of them.
Nic Pizzolatto
Image
I read The Conspiracy Against the Human Race and found it incredibly powerful writing. For me as a reader, it was less impactful as philosophy than as one writers ultimate confessional: an absolute horror story, where the self is the monster.
Nic Pizzolatto
Image
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.
Nic Pizzolatto
Image
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.
Nic Pizzolatto
Image
The idea of being a show runner was very attractive to me, to create and control something.
Nic Pizzolatto
Image
I find the constraints of drama actually freeing: It brings everything down to character and action.
Nic Pizzolatto
Image
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.
Nic Pizzolatto
Image
I don't think you can create effectively toward expectation. I'm not in the service business.
Nic Pizzolatto
Image
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.
Nic Pizzolatto
Image
I was raised in a heavily Catholic family. Early and consistent encounters with mysticism.
Nic Pizzolatto
Image
If landscape is a character for me, then it helps if I'm familiar with it and I already have a take on it.
Nic Pizzolatto
Image
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.
Nic Pizzolatto
Image
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.
Nic Pizzolatto
Image
Certain experiences you can't survive, and afterward you don't fully exist, even if you failed to die.
Nic Pizzolatto
Image
I'm not in the service business.
Nic Pizzolatto
Image
I was raised by television. It was my first cultural window. It was a constant companion.
Nic Pizzolatto
Image
Some people, no matter where they look, they see themselves.
Nic Pizzolatto
Image
The Atlantic really gave me my writing career - even just the conviction to be a writer.
Nic Pizzolatto