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

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Source : "‘True Detective’ creator Nic Pizzolatto talks season 1". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. March 9, 2014.

Nic Pizzolatto

#Character Quotes #Demand Quotes #Want Quotes

“There are conditions of blindness so voluntary that they become complicity.”

Source : Paul Bourget (1893). “Cosmopolis”, p.152, Library of Alexandria
“Some of the biggest bores I've ever known are men who have been highly successful in business, particularly self-made heads of big companies. Before the first olive has settled into the first martini, they pour the stories of their lives into the nearest and sometimes the remotest ears capturable.... These men have indeed paid the price of success. To rise to the top of a big company often takes a totality of effort, concentration and dedication. Others, too, have to pay part of the price. Wife and children are out of mind even when in sight....”
“It's all about mechanics; all the weight-lifting in the world can't help you if you're not running correctly.”
“If I am mistaken in my opinion that the human soul is immortal, I willingly err; nor would I have this pleasant error extorted from me; and if, as some minute philosophers suppose, death should deprive me of my being, I need not fear the raillery of those pretended philosophers when they are no more.”
“Being stubborn is a virtue when you're right; it's only a character flaw when you're wrong.”
“It was like a heart transplant. We tried to implant college in him but his head rejected it.”
“A skunk is better company than a person who prides himself on being 'frank'.”
“Beware of letting small faults pass unnoticed under the idea it is a little one. There are no little things in training children; all are important. Little weeds need plucking up as much as any. Leave them alone and they will soon be great.”

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