Nic Pizzolatto about True Detective - how he wrote ALL THREE Seasons

[@WesternOutpostDonVonFilms]

The first season of True Detective is my favorite television series of all time. It's amazing.

[@lander.96]

I respect and admire this man. True artist.

[@berlinseries888]

TRUE ARTIST

[@ai5837]

What's wrong with people? Second season was brilliant! For me, it was (even) better than the first. And the third, better still. N.P. is a serious man and artist. I feel he's doing "God's work" (even if he, perhaps, wouldn't say so, explicitly, himself). I shed tars of joy at the end of S3. That happened only once before, from freakin TV. And I'm 42 years old. Thank you, Nic Pizolatto! ❤

[@buckleygeneration]

I love that Nic P does the classic thing of mixing up Bill Pullman and Bill Paxton. Frailty was a great movie.

[@hollywooda111]

TD Season 1 is a absolute masterpiece.

[@berlinseries888]

it really is

[@josephsu95]

I resonate so much with this guy, been painting/drawing all my life but also a huge movie/story and lore lover. Always looking up the lore of video games, didnt like horror movies but only the story about the bad guy or the monster and how it got there. Just started writing and finished my first story, its like the gates have openend and i have 3 more book/movie ideas that i want to write. I hope one day one might make it to the big screen

[@NavdeepSingh-qf5eb]

Welcome to the club mate. If you are in Denmark, gimme a shout. I've started working on my dream ✨️😁

[@creatrpro]

I could listen to their view on the art form and knowledge and opinion about the craft forever - both are great, wonderful interview

[@enterthebruce91]

Nic Pizzolatto is great! I wrote the 1st episode of a TV series while I was in university just as True Detective season 1 was coming out, had no idea how much I'd love the show! I really hope TD Season 4 is great, even without Nic Writing it. I'll never write for HBO but I enjoyed writing a cohesive story even if no one ever sees it and maybe I'll write a novel one day. Fantastic interview, thanks for sharing.

[@berlinseries888]

thanks for watching :)

[@williamb8091]

What a beautiful ending to a great conversation!

[@MrLESLO]

Much respect for Nic, and great interview. I've watched season 1-3 twice now and love all 3. I don't understand why people criticize season 2 instead of applaud it, it had a much more complex story than the first season and the writing, characters and acting were great. Season 3 is fantastic, if not better than the first season. I think in time season 2 will be appreciated a lot more than it was at the time, especially since season 4 has gone off the plot completely and is nothing like 'true detective'. People don't know what they're missing until it's gone. :(

[@berlinseries888]

Yes Nic is a BEAST, also S2 is great!

[@sherececocco]

Nic is not afraid to ask for what he wants because he knows what he wants. Very rear in this world. Season 2 killed me in the last episode. I also felt special.

[@TheEnderBand]

Love the Hilma Af Klint piece on the wall- her work was incredible

[@berlinseries888]

yes, Hilma af Klint created great art paintings

[@stardestroyer6272]

My eye was instantly caught by Nic's artwork in the background (left side) it appears to be the cover art to Ken Wilber's book "The eye of spirit" I'm a fan of all this. Thank you for sharing ❤

[@berlinseries888]

thank you! happy we bought these two together ;)

[@rschneider77]

Thanks for uploading this! ❤

[@berlinseries888]

happy you like it , appreciate it!

[@joeb5765]

Fantastic interview. Series 2 is insanely underrated. Green Book is also a good film. Very re-watchable.

[@berlinseries888]

absolutely agree :)

[@nikosmp9796]

One of the most interesting conversations I have watched lately! Thank you!

[@berlinseries888]

Thanks :))

[@LSChestersMom]

This is so inspiring....I have a script I am working on and this is so helpful. David Milch is my hero and gave me some great thoughts on my script and it is a treasure to me.

[@berlinseries888]

Thanks!

[@ibrahimf-5189]

s2 is my all time favorite. a californian noir, a greek tragedy, a buddhist awakening all at the same time. ıt deserves much better. colin farrell lived his role.

[@berlinseries888]

well put! it was stunning indeed

[@ibrahimf-5189]

@@berlinseries888 ı wish you would talk about s2 a bit more because mr. pizzolatto is in complete silence about it for years. so ı think that season will remains as a mistery and its a shame because ıt a so solid story in its core, about fatherhood and legacy, justice and retribution and most importantly redemption. but this talk is also wonderful. ı think mr pizzolatto becomes much more optimistic person and ı really enjoy his best self.

[@berlinseries888]

@@ibrahimf-5189 come to berlin to enjoy festival , we we will talk about everything, including S2

[@zackbrown5717]

Me personally s2 was not as great as s1! Was good but not quite as good as s1

[@berlinseries888]

@@zackbrown5717 did you watch s3?

[@TheJonnyEnglish]

This was great thanks

[@berlinseries888]

:)

[@aylinocal6091]

Great talk , love Green Book and True Detective!

[@USALibertarian]

Thanks for a great interview. FYI the audio technology is excruciating when people interrupt eachother.

[@danielrusteau8896]

Amazing interview!!!

[@kevindeanschrooders]

Amazing interview

[@berlinseries888]

both of them are amazing

[@andreasdrunk]

Thank you for sharing this!

[@berlinseries888]

thank u for watching :)

[@munch314]

Season 2 was great.

[@stephanusferdian6376]

Incredible! Legends at work!

[@berlinseries888]

glad you like it :)

[@giancarlodr.iodice1701]

keep up the good job it's ...

[@tuto7447]

Thanks you.

[@BetweenTheFog]

Such a great storyteller. A bit bummed we are not getting TD #4, though I am happy we still have future Nic projects to look forward to.

[@stephenandrews5530]

Season 4 called, Night Country is coming this year though. Nic Pizzolatto is not involved anymore, but i really look forward to it. Set in Alaska, and with Jodie Foster playing on of the detectives so hopefully it will be good.

[@BetweenTheFog]

Wow! Thank you. Jodie Foster and True Detective seems to be the perfect mix that should have already happened...

[@berlinseries888]

@@BetweenTheFog We hope it's going to be great too, no doubt that Jodie Foster is a great actress

[@d-evilmc]

He's such a good story teller that when he starts talking your instantly taken away and picturing what he's saying.

[@berlinseries888]

SUCH an AMZING ONE!!

[@opusculo8009]

I really love true detective. But listening to this guy, he sounds like he is too in love with himself. I don’t know, I maybe wrong, but that’s the vibe I get.

[@fgoindarkg]

'Time is a flat circle". Hands up everyone who knows what that means.

[@ludvanbeethoven1]

Which documentaries is he talking about around the 15:16 mark? Can’t make out the words due to poor audio quality

[@joeb5765]

He is talking about a documentary film maker called Errol Morris. Morris has done many docs throughout his career but I suspect he is referring to The Thin Blue Line. Masterpiece. Generally considered one of the greatest crime documentaries ever made.

[@fgoindarkg]

That movie got a wrongfully convicted man out of prison. So yeah, how many movies can make that claim.

[@ludvanbeethoven1]

Not many, I’ll be sure to check it out. Thanks

[@TheJonnyEnglish]

Morris is a G

[@thetruththewayandthelife803]

Bring back rust cohle

[@berlinseries888]

absolutely AGREE

[@thetruththewayandthelife803]

With the story something like .. Marty's family get taken by the bigger sprawl ..police and government apart of the sprawl ..Rust and Marty save the day 😂

[@berlinseries888]

@@thetruththewayandthelife803 ha!

[@CobblesteinSwobblepop]

Whoa whoa whoa... "some dragon movie" we're talking about Reign Of Fire here bud!!!

[@ai5837]

🤣🤣🤣 You're a man after mine own heart. (For, sure as shit, a man you are)

[@berlinseries888]

[@DukeBluedevil70]

He hit Ctrl+C then Ctrl+V.

[@courtneygillespie1187]

I want to work with him.

[@berlinseries888]

Many would love to , fingers crossed!

[@courtneygillespie1187]

@@berlinseries888 he's brilliant if he did the stooges movie It would be a masterpiece 👌

[@fgoindarkg]

Keep your pockets zipped.

[@ru4realzzz]

nic pizzolatto's 'a prophet' 2023 reamke, please and thank you!!!

[@mikehalsey9299]

Well for season 1 he simply bought some Alan Moore comics and literally copied the ideas and in one case an entire page of dialogue.

[@drewdrewson1384]

How could you not ask Nic about Epstein!

[@spoiler321]

For a guy who uses words he sure seems to have trouble using words

[@berlinseries888]

Hi! We don't really get what you are trying to say?

[@Throwingness]

The writing and show was great but the Reddit tier Atheism ruined it.

[@Gofaw]

it's crazy how so many people were woo'd by Rust's lines about atheism and religion. Goes to show that all it takes is a great delivery of dialogue, not what the dialogue actually says. He never says much more than "life sucks, we should no longer exist" or "haha religious people dumb, science better"

[@BearIslandComics]

Seems like a pretty exhausting dude to be around

[@dannyt4663]

I enjoy true detective but yeah, he can’t seem to stop himself from constantly talking over the other Nick lol. Kind of frustrating being around someone who has so much to say they have no room for you

[@i.k5143]

Stop interrupting your subject for Christ sake.

[@jfrsnjhnsn]

He didn't "write" this series. He assembled it from sampling other people's novels and movies. He's a klepto.

[@cogd1599]

That's called writing. Everything we think or do is inspired by something else. Ha, what did you think writing was? Inventing something out of thin air that no one in the thousands upon thousands of years of human existence had ever considered before??

[@fgoindarkg]

He stole dialogue and scenes from me. It was good stuff.

[@xensonar9652]

Can you prove that?

[@Gofaw]

@@xensonar9652 yes

[@Mr---mr4ll]

For me the scene were rust quits, as he’s walking out the door he sort of utters under his breath “fuck this world man” but it’s the way he said it. It was like fuck now I know what this guy is all about. He’s so exhausted by the cluster fuck that is human society. The disappointment in that delivery was the eureka moment for me .

[@Intimatycal]

"The dept of your writing..." hahah.. dude became a fucking saint; i just wonder did anyone of these people who are prone to glorify the creator of true detective - did anyone of them read like, you know, anything? True detective is well crafted tv show, dont get me wrong, with rushed few last episodes, but for an educated man - there's nothing new, the "awe" mostly comes from the pleasant way its structured and fine-tuned with lots of contrast-positions.. for ignorant masses, lines from it are revelations... i wonder what would happen if anyone of them starts reading Nietzsche or Shopenhauer, Dostoevsky...

[@eg4441]

you could be positive for a moment and think maybe this is how someone ends up seeking those figures out. looks at art that came before it. expands their knowledge. people get exposed in different ways