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I think like a detective.
I read a lot of detective novels.
'True Detective' did change my career.
I'm really into the detective drama genre.
A really good detective never gets married.
You need a crime, a detective, and the solution.
'True Detective' would not pass The Bechdel Test.
I play a detective, very close to myself actually.
A show like 'True Detective' is definitely a drama.
I'd be an absolutely appalling detective... Appalling.
When I was younger, I watched all the detective shows.
It's totally different playing a lawyer and a detective.
I used to work as a private detective years and years ago.
I'd love to do a Columbo-type detective character in a series.
I didn't expect anything crazy to happen from 'True Detective.'
Nothing in the television show 'True Detective' was plagiarized.
When I was a kid, I wanted to be a spy detective or a rock star.
Detective fiction could not have existed without Edgar Allan Poe.
One of my favorite parts of being an actress is being a detective.
A detective story is just the premise for conflict, as a Western is.
The thing I don't like about detective stories is looking for criminals.
I'm not cut out to be a detective on 'Law & Order' - I laugh too easily.
Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.
If you think about it, the historian's task is like that of the detective.
A detective sees death in all the various forms at least five times a week.
Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
At first I imagined I'd write detective novels, because I loved 'Nancy Drew.'
To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy.
What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.
Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.
A guy like Bray Wyatt, he could easily have played something in 'True Detective.'
If I write scripts that nobody likes, I don't think we'll be doing 'True Detective.'
I didn't grow up watching detective shows. I've never even seen an episode of 'CSI.'
I've always felt if you followed a real private detective around, it would be boring.
The old detective story that's got a really complicated motive doesn't apply to mine.
My position is that of detective, confessor, vaudevillian, advocate. And devil's advocate.
I saw part of The Singing Detective on TV in New York. I said, Something is going on here.
My first two novels were quirky detective stories followed by a couple of SF/Fantasy novels.
The detective genre is not easy because you've got to get to a conclusion that is unexpected.
I didn't know I was doing film noir, I thought they were detective stories with low lighting!
I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again.
I love the French detective series 'Spiral.' It's quite brutal to watch, but I'm already hooked.
I watch all the shows. From 'Breaking Bad' to 'Game of Thrones.' 'Scandal' and 'True Detective.'
I read a lot of 'Nancy Drew' books as a kid and considered myself a bit of an amateur detective.
I am a writer. I could not afford to take 15 months off from my writing career to play detective.
It's like being involved in a detective story, looking for that thing that nobody else has found.
More than 100 years after he first appeared, Holmes remains the template for the fictional detective.
But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own.
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.
I always thought if I wasn't an actor, I might make quite a good detective - mainly because I'm nosey.