My biggest dream and my biggest accomplishment was to be on HBO and 'True Detective.' It was a show that I just fell in love with.
I was so nervous that this was 'True Detective' and that I needed to do a good job that I would just dig into every scene.
With 'True Detective,' you have a lot of time. How I like to describe it... it's like you're filming a theater piece.
I saw part of The Singing Detective on TV in New York. I said, Something is going on here.
I read science, because to me, that's extremely exciting. It's like a great detective story, and it's happening right in front of us.
If you look at the best-seller list for American fiction, they're all sequels to detective stories or stories about hunting serial killers. That's what's called American fiction these days.
'True Detective' did change my career.
I didn't expect anything crazy to happen from 'True Detective.'
I'm not a great student, so I don't know that I would have been a great detective. Part of my brain sort of works that way, like wanting to figure out puzzles and figure out what happened and why people do the things they do and who they are and how it happened.
The tradition, particularly in old-school British detective things, is everybody's in the drawing room or the library, and they're all gathered, and the detective walks around and tells them where they were that night, and you see the flashbacks.
