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True Detective

by Nic Pizzolatto, Rust Cohle, Matthew McConaughey, Cary Fukunaga, News Reporter and 102 others

An American anthology police detective series utilizing multiple timelines in which investigations seem to unearth personal and professional secrets of those involved, both within or outside the law.

(35 total)

Seasons

True Detective Season 1 (23)Season 2 (9)Season 3 (3)

Characters

Nic Pizzolatto (35)Rust Cohle (17)Matthew McConaughey (17)Woody Harrelson (6)Martin Hart (6)Ray Velcoro (5)Colin Farrell (5)Vince Vaughn (4)Frank Semyon (4)Graham Gordy (3)

“I wasn't a fearful man. I did things some people even called brave. Y'all made a coward of me. I been terrified since the day you were born.”

— Graham Gordy, Nic Pizzolatto, Wayne Hays, Mahershala Ali, imdb.com

Tagged: Scared Of Having Kids, Having Kids, Being Scared Of Your Kids

“One thing I learned, the war? Life happens now. Then later's now, y'know? It's never behind you.”

— Graham Gordy, Nic Pizzolatto, Wayne Hays, Mahershala Ali, imdb.com

Tagged: Time

“A lost child is a void that echoes backwards and forwards in time. It encompasses not just the rooms you were in with them and are no longer, or even those rooms you will never enter together. The negation is deeper. It is the knowledge that in every room you enter for the rest of your life, they sh…”

— Graham Gordy, Nic Pizzolatto, Amelia Reardon, Carmen Ejogo, imdb.com

Tagged: Death, Lost Child, Kidnapping

“I try to limit the people I can disappoint.”

— Nic Pizzolatto, Ray Velcoro, Colin Farrell, imdb.com

Tagged: Cynical, Scared of The World

“Everything’s ending. Time to wake up.”

— Nic Pizzolatto, Frank Semyon, Vince Vaughn, imdb.com

Tagged: New Beginnings, Make It New, Ending

“Look me in the eyes. I want to watch your lights go out.”

— Nic Pizzolatto, Frank Semyon, Vince Vaughn, imdb.com

Tagged: What To Say When You're Killing Somone, Murder, Watching Someone Die

“Pain is inexhaustible.”

— Nic Pizzolatto, Ray Velcoro, Colin Farrell, imdb.com

Tagged: Pain, Suffering, Limits of Pain

“The bad thing it makes you better. Stronger. It gives you something most people don’t have. Bad as this is, wrong as it is... This hurt... it can make you a better man. That’s what pain does. It shows you what was on the inside.”

— Nic Pizzolatto, Scott Lasser, Frank Semyon, Vince Vaughn, imdb.com

Tagged: The Obstacle Is The Way, Through Pain We Grow, Your Wound Is Your Talent, Pain, What To Say To Someone Suffering

“Sometimes your worst self is your best self. You know what I’m saying?”

— Nic Pizzolatto, Scott Lasser, Frank Semyon, Vince Vaughn, imdb.com

Tagged: Your Worst Is Your Best, Just Be Yourself, Monster of You

“I used to want to be an astronaut. But astronauts don’t even go to the moon anymore.”

— Nic Pizzolatto, Ray Velcoro, Colin Farrell, imdb.com

Tagged: Astronauts, Going To Space

“Sometimes a good beating provokes personal growth.”

— Nic Pizzolatto, Ray Velcoro, Colin Farrell, imdb.com

Tagged: Growth Through Violence, Aestheticization of Violence, Through Pain We Grow, Fighting, Violence

“My strong suspicion is we get the world we deserve.”

— Nic Pizzolatto, Ray Velcoro, Colin Farrell, imdb.com

Tagged: Human Nature, We Get What We Deserve, Conservative Cynicism

“Most of the last decade I spent stone-drunk. Functional, but hammered.”

— Nic Pizzolatto, Rust Cohle, Matthew McConaughey, imdb.com

Tagged: Functioning Alcoholic, Alcohol, Drinking Too Much

“Marty: What do you call a black man who flies a plane? Bobby: I don’t know. Marty: Pilot, you racist bastard.”

— Nic Pizzolatto, Martin Hart, Woody Harrelson, imdb.com

Tagged: racism, Jokes To Reveal Implicit Racism

“What always happens between men and women? Reality.”

— Nic Pizzolatto, Martin Hart, Woody Harrelson, imdb.com

Tagged: Reality of Relationships, Breaking Up, Why Relationships End, Breaking Up After A Wedding, Men And Women

“Solution to my whole life was right under my nose— that woman, those kids— and I was watching everything else. See, infidelity is one kind of sin, but my true failure was inattention.”

— Nic Pizzolatto, Martin Hart, Woody Harrelson, imdb.com

Tagged: Men Regretting Cheating, Losing Your Family, Family, Inattention, What Happens When You Move Through Life With Your Eyes Closed

“You know, people that give me advice, I reckon they’re talking to themselves.”

— Nic Pizzolatto, Rust Cohle, Matthew McConaughey, imdb.com

Tagged: What To Say When You Don't Need Advice, Stop Helping Me, Things To Say When You Don't Want To Hear It, Sassy

“Kids are the only thing that matter. They’re the only reason for this whole man-woman drama.”

— Nic Pizzolatto, Rust Cohle, Matthew McConaughey, imdb.com

Tagged: Why We Get Married, Children, Parenthood, kids, Meaning of Relationships

“In eternity, where there is no time, nothing can grow. Nothing can become. Nothing changes. So death created time to grow the things that it would kill and you are reborn but into the same life that you’ve always been born into.”

— Nic Pizzolatto, Rust Cohle, Matthew McConaughey, imdb.com

Tagged: Eternity, When Time Freezes, Fate, Eternal Return, Reincarnation

“Alaska is beautiful. It’s not Paris, but it’s clean, and it’s clear.”

— Nic Pizzolatto, Rust Cohle, Matthew McConaughey, imdb.com

Tagged: Alaska, Rural Vs. Urban, Cities vs. Nature, Beauty of Alaska