I didn't grow up watching detective shows. I've never even seen an episode of 'CSI.'

- Cary Fukunaga

I played a homosexual bodyguard in 'The Last Detective,' and that was quite a pleasure to do something slightly different. I was a very camp bodyguard!

- Dave Legeno

If you think about it, the historian's task is like that of the detective.

- David Herbert Donald

There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because the public will have learnt all the tricks.

- Dorothy L. Sayers

The thought of playing a New York detective scared the hell out of me. I didn't know if people would believe me in the role just because of my physicality, which made me want to do it even more.

- Charlotte Ross

I read a lot of detective novels.

- Caitlin Kittredge

I read a lot of 'Nancy Drew' books as a kid and considered myself a bit of an amateur detective.

- Chelsea Cain

This idea that you can watch a show like 'True Detective,' and it was awesome, but is it really ruined for you if the finale is not your favorite episode of it? It's just odd to me.

- Carlton Cuse

My manager sent me the first two scripts for 'True Detective,' and I just thought they were so interesting and that the world they were depicting was so titillating to me.

- Cary Fukunaga

'True Detective' would not pass The Bechdel Test.

- Cary Fukunaga

It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.

- Agatha Christie

I enjoy setting the scene and coming up with interesting frames. 'True Detective' was a very hands-on set.

- Cary Fukunaga

I'm not cut out to be a detective on 'Law & Order' - I laugh too easily.

- Becki Newton

With 'True Detective,' you have a lot of time. How I like to describe it... it's like you're filming a theater piece.

- Adria Arjona

My biggest dream and my biggest accomplishment was to be on HBO and 'True Detective.' It was a show that I just fell in love with.

- Adria Arjona

I saw part of The Singing Detective on TV in New York. I said, Something is going on here.

- Alain Resnais

Even as I was writing 'Empire State,' I knew there were more adventures for the main character, private detective Rad Bradley, to have. I also knew that the world was far larger than what I'd presented in book one.

- Adam Christopher

I think a lot of us responded intensely to 'True Detective' because it was so incredibly earnest. That's what made it heartbreaking and involving.

- Annalee Newitz

If you look at the best-seller list for American fiction, they're all sequels to detective stories or stories about hunting serial killers. That's what's called American fiction these days.

- Albert Brooks

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

- Arthur C. Clarke