Season

True Detective Season 1

by Nic Pizzolatto, Martin Hart, Woody Harrelson, Cary Fukunaga, Florence Young and 101 others

In 2012, Louisiana State Police Detectives Rust Cohle and Martin Hart are brought in to revisit a homicide case they worked in 1995. As the inquiry unfolds in present day through separate interrogations, the two former detectives narrate the story of t

(23 total)

Characters

Nic Pizzolatto (23)Rust Cohle (17)Matthew McConaughey (17)Woody Harrelson (6)Martin Hart (6)

“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

“Of course I’m dangerous. I’m police. I could do terrible things to people... with impunity.”

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

Tagged: Police, Standing Above Justice, Cops Getting Away With Things, Cops

“I’ll tell you guys — and believe me, past a certain age, a man without a family can be a bad thing.”

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

Tagged: Family, Do Men Need Families To Be Normal?

“Rust: I consider myself a realist, all right, but in philosophical terms, I’m what’s called a pessimist. Marty: Um, okay. What’s that mean? Rust: Means I’m bad at parties.”

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

Tagged: Pessimism, Cynical, Being Cynical, Jokes About Being Cynical, Introverts

“I think human consciousness was a tragic misstep in evolution. We became too self-aware. Nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself. We are creatures that should not exist by natural law. We are things that labor under the illusion of having a self, this accretion of sensory experience…”

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

Tagged: Evolution Made Mistakes, Cynicism About Human Nature, Nature, Our Creation

“I was just a regular type dude, with a big ass dick.”

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

Tagged: Arrogance on TV, Beginning Mystery, True Detective

“I'll tell you guys, believe me, past a certain age, a man without a family can be a bad thing.”

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

Tagged: Arrogance on TV, Beginning Mystery, True Detective

“We all got what I call a life trap, this gene-deep certainty that things will be different, that you’ll move to another city and meet the people that’ll be the friends for the rest of your life, that you’ll fall in love and be fulfilled. F*cking fulfillment and closure, whatever the f*ck those two……”

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

Tagged: True Detective

“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: True Detective

“Life’s barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you get good at.”

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

Tagged: Choosing A Profession, Learning, Education

“This is a world where nothing is solved. Someone once told me, time is a flat circle. Everything we’ve ever done or will do, we’re gonna do over and over and over again.”

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

Tagged: True Detective

“To realize that all your life… you know, all your love, all your hate, all your memory, all your pain, it was all the same thing. It was all the same dream. A dream that you had inside a locked room. A dream about being a person. And like a lot of dreams there’s a monster at the end of it.”

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

Tagged: True Detective

“If the only thing keeping a person decent is the expectation of divine reward then brother that person is a piece of shit. And I’d like to get as many of them out in the open as possible. You gotta get together and tell yourself stories that violate every law of the universe just to get through the…”

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

Tagged: True Detective