Nic Pizzolatto about True Detective - how he wrote ALL THREE Seasons
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- Опубликовано: 2 июл 2024
- Nic Pizzolatto about his inspiration, youth, his passion for literature and writing, and how he approached his process of creating True Detective (Season 1 - Season 3). He's interviewed by Oscar winning Writer/Producer Nick Vallelonga ("Green Book") in this amazing conversation about the art of storytelling.
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 - 01:25 Introduction
01:26 - Background and Upbringing
02:40 - I was a visual artist...
04:00 - In UNIVERSITY...
05:25 - I started publishing short stories.... and I was a reader
06:10 - What I really loved was story... I had the sense the world ran on stories
07:50 - The DEPTH of your writing ...
09:15 - I did always like the Police & Crime Drama
10:15 - What do I need to do to become a showrunner?
11:15 - But I WAS HUNGRY
12:58 - My idea for the novel...
15:23 - It was a conscious design by you.... to break into the tv/movie business
16:10 - What interesting about all three seasons...it was like I was reading a book...
17:05 - It came so easy.. within those restrictions you can do a lot of really interesting stuff
18:43 - I tend to direct on the page but it seems to work for the actors
19:40 - When I write action ... I write every beat of that action
20:55 - How did you get TRUE DETECTIVE up and running ?
29:27 - Yea... cuz it's MINE... we're only going if I am the SHOWRUNNER
30:10 - Showrunners get fired all the time... as a creator, actors are your best advocates
32.00 - How was your relationship to the DIRECTOR?
33:00 - Season 2 with a lot more cooks in the kitchen
36:09 - Season 3 how did you come up with the STORYLINE
40:00 - "He's gonna forget he solved it.... but what he's gonna gain is himself"
43:00 - Watching Season 3 for me... You brought it all together
47:34 - Your choice of an actor
50:23 - That was entirely Mahershala Ali's extremely meticulous performance
53:26 - WHAT is your PROCESS?
58:50 - "Very special moment" .... "I liked that the DETECTIVE had to go and asked the lost girl..."
59:39 - AFTER three noir tv shows and living in degrees of darkness...
1:00:35 - I have new projects with actors attached
1:03:00 - What kind of advice would you give aspiring storytellers and writers?
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I love that Nic P does the classic thing of mixing up Bill Pullman and Bill Paxton. Frailty was a great movie.
I respect and admire this man. True artist.
TRUE ARTIST
The first season of True Detective is my favorite television series of all time. It's amazing.
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! ❤
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.
thanks for watching :)
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
Welcome to the club mate. If you are in Denmark, gimme a shout. I've started working on my dream ✨️😁
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.
well put! it was stunning indeed
@@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.
@@ibrahimf-5189 come to berlin to enjoy festival , we we will talk about everything, including S2
Me personally s2 was not as great as s1! Was good but not quite as good as s1
@@zackbrown5717 did you watch s3?
Amazing interview!!!
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.
I could listen to their view on the art form and knowledge and opinion about the craft forever - both are great, wonderful interview
Great talk , love Green Book and True Detective!
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. :(
Yes Nic is a BEAST, also S2 is great!
What a beautiful ending to a great conversation!
TD Season 1 is a absolute masterpiece.
it really is
Awesome Mr.Nick! My mom says hi!
Incredible! Legends at work!
glad you like it :)
One of the most interesting conversations I have watched lately! Thank you!
Thanks :))
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 ❤
thank you! happy we bought these two together ;)
Thank you for sharing this!
thank u for watching :)
Thanks for uploading this! ❤
happy you like it , appreciate it!
Fantastic interview. Series 2 is insanely underrated. Green Book is also a good film. Very re-watchable.
absolutely agree :)
Amazing interview
both of them are amazing
Thanks for a great interview.
FYI the audio technology is excruciating when people interrupt eachother.
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.
Thanks!
Thanks you.
Love the Hilma Af Klint piece on the wall- her work was incredible
yes, Hilma af Klint created great art paintings
keep up the good job it's ...
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.
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.
Wow! Thank you. Jodie Foster and True Detective seems to be the perfect mix that should have already happened...
@@BetweenTheFog We hope it's going to be great too, no doubt that Jodie Foster is a great actress
Season 2 was great.
He's such a good story teller that when he starts talking your instantly taken away and picturing what he's saying.
SUCH an AMZING ONE!!
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.
'Time is a flat circle".
Hands up everyone who knows what that means.
Mark Frost should have a convo with Nic at some point, since Twin Peaks has had such an obvious impact on what Nic does
Which documentaries is he talking about around the 15:16 mark? Can’t make out the words due to poor audio quality
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.
That movie got a wrongfully convicted man out of prison. So yeah, how many movies can make that claim.
Not many, I’ll be sure to check it out. Thanks
nic pizzolatto's 'a prophet' 2023 reamke, please and thank you!!!
Bring back rust cohle
absolutely AGREE
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 😂
@@thetruththewayandthelife803 ha!
Whoa whoa whoa... "some dragon movie" we're talking about Reign Of Fire here bud!!!
🤣🤣🤣 You're a man after mine own heart. (For, sure as shit, a man you are)
Its crazy to think this guy was my mom's first boyfriend
Who’s your Mom?
Not you lying
Did he steal her from someone else too?
@@gleam6370 Bro i wish i was 💀
@@fgoindarkg ,,,,,,HAHAHAH
I want to work with him.
Many would love to , fingers crossed!
@@berlinseries888 he's brilliant if he did the stooges movie It would be a masterpiece 👌
Keep your pockets zipped.
He hit Ctrl+C then Ctrl+V.
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.
For a guy who uses words he sure seems to have trouble using words
Hi! We don't really get what you are trying to say?
How could you not ask Nic about Epstein!
Seems like a pretty exhausting dude to be around
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
The writing and show was great but the Reddit tier Atheism ruined it.
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"
"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...
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
Stop interrupting your subject for Christ sake.
39:31 yes, that is exactly why this season was so disappointing and anticlimactic. I’ve honestly never been so let down by a finale. The character isn’t developed in depth, it doesn’t work as a character drama, it’s written like a noir mystery but all the genuinely mysterious, intriguing bits turn out to be red herrings and in the end we just get the most predictable of all possible endings and the big twist is that the protagonist…just forgot he’s already solved the whole thing and there was never anything more to it. It’s not interesting or profound because the show doesn’t set us up to relate to the detective on a fleshed our human level, it’s written like a spooky potboiler - so the ending registers as pure bathos
He didn't "write" this series. He assembled it from sampling other people's novels and movies. He's a klepto.
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??
He stole dialogue and scenes from me. It was good stuff.
Can you prove that?
@@xensonar9652 yes
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 .