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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)

“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

“This place is like somebody’s memory of a town, and the memory is fading. It’s like there was never anything here but jungle.”

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

Tagged: True Detective

“I think human consciousness, is 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, an accretion of sensory, experience a…”

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

Tagged: True Detective

“It’s all one ghetto, man, giant gutter in outer space.”

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

Tagged: Space, Outer Space