John Wells Quotes

I didn't expect anything crazy to happen from 'True Detective.'

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.

I actually went back and watched all of 'True Detective''s Season One again, which I think is a true masterpiece.

I was attached to 'Sharp Objects' before 'Big Little Lies,' actually.

I've seen 'True Detective' end-to-end at least three times; I'll probably see it again. It is a work of dark brilliance. But if the phone goes fifteen minutes from the end of that last episode, I'll likely turn it off and go make coffee when I'm done with the call.

'True Detective' was the last show I got crazy about, with its 'Silence of the Lambs'-style landscape and those strip mall badlands of America.

I tend to be a fan of darker shows and love 'The Americans,' 'Ray Donovan,' 'True Detective,' 'House of Cards' and 'Peaky Blinders.'

I am a huge fan of shows like 'Breaking Bad,' 'Dexter,' 'The Mentalist.'

I recently got into 'Lie to Me' with Tim Roth and 'The Mentalist.'

'The Wire,' I was such a fan of that show the first season - I think that's the best-written show on TV.

'Dexter' is a very well-oiled machine; it's just a great show and great to be part of.

I've seen every episode of 'Sopranos.'

I liked 'The Wire.'

I'm a big fan of 'Prison Break' - I've watched it eight times.

Having set its tonal template, Vertigo Crime laid low for a few months before starting in earnest at the beginning of 2010.

I love 'Bates Motel.' I'm a huge Vera Farmiga fan, and I'm a huge Freddie Highmore fan. In fact, that entire principal casting.

'Broadchurch' is very different, but it's equally as good as 'The Killing' - if not better.

I loved 'Homeland' - it's such an intriguing, intelligent piece of television, and I am fascinated by them making a hero and heroine that are so odd, so flawed and so complicated. It is a programme that really draws you in.

I would love to do a political drama. I'm a 'West Wing' fanatic.

'Breaking Bad' is one of my favorite shows of all time.

That's what everyone said attracted them to Lantana - I call it an adult mystery, because it's not a thriller in the sense of that other way, but it is a mystery.

Maybe I'm a little biased, but shows like 'Dexter' and 'Southland,' I'm just enthralled by that sort of storytelling, kind of clever and patient.

The one fiction show I watch is 'Hannibal.' I love it!

I love 'Dexter.' The dark sense of humor is wonderful.

But there are still good shows like 24, Boomtown and the Wire, the Shield.