I used to audition for 'NYPD Blue' quite a bit, so I had this stock New York detective character that I would bring in for all their auditions.
Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.
In the early nineties, I was a cub reporter on a city newspaper in Limerick, and assigned to the courthouse there. One day, an old detective sergeant came and whispered to me in the press pit. He pointed out a young offender, a teenager who was up for stealing a car or something relatively minor, and said, 'See this kid? He'll kill.'
When I was a kid, I wanted to be a spy detective or a rock star.
Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.
I enjoy setting the scene and coming up with interesting frames. 'True Detective' was a very hands-on set.
I didn't know I was doing film noir, I thought they were detective stories with low lighting!
A working detective has no hope of understanding what even experts who devote their lives to the study of criminal psychology can't figure out.
I made 'True Detective' like it was going to be the only thing I ever made for television. So put in everything and the kitchen sink. Everything.
If you think about it, the historian's task is like that of the detective.
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