Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" I'm not that guy who thinks I have all the answers. Writing is a means of communicating, and if enough people say, 'I don't get it,' it's worth looking at. "
Noah Hawley
Enough
Looking
People
Related Quotes:
" The most dangerous thing, when you have a serious mental illness, is convincing yourself that you don't have it. And you see it all the time. People get on medication, and they feel better, and they stop taking it. And some flirt with unreality on some levels. But it feels so convincing to them that it feels real. "
Noah Hawley
Better
People
Time
" I drove around New York when we did the upfronts and when we premiered 'Fargo,' and they crocheted a sweater for a double-decker bus and drove it around. "
Noah Hawley
Around
Sweater
Did
" Making 'Fargo' for FX has been the highlight of my career. A writer can search his or her whole career for a network partner who truly understands and encourages their vision. For me, the search is over. "
Noah Hawley
Vision
Career
Her
" A book is full of ideas. You just live with what you read for so much longer. A lot of the times, nowadays, with a movie or TV show, it's like, 'Oh, it's entertainment!' And you never think about it again. "
Noah Hawley
Never
Ideas
Think
" The '50s and the '70s are sort of similar in that they're both times of major paranoia in America. "
Noah Hawley
Paranoia
America
Major
" My mom never went to college, so she just assumed the writer identity, and that was always really inspiring to me. It's not something you need nine levels of education for. It's really an identity that you claim for yourself, and then you have to make yourself one. "
Noah Hawley
Yourself
Me
Identity
" I always feel like you can take a genre that has a familiar structure to it and then reinvent it as a character piece. Suddenly, what's old is new again. With 'Fargo,' I adapted a movie without any of the characters or the story. Yet somehow it feels like 'Fargo.' "
Noah Hawley
Story
You
Feel
" The first conversations I had for 'Legion' were right as the first year of 'Fargo' was ending. 'Daredevil' hadn't even begun then, so when signing on, I had no real sense of the onslaught that was coming. "
Noah Hawley
First
Real
Right
" The great amount of fun that I have is I can cast dramatic actors to play comedic roles, and I can cast comedic actors to play dramatic roles because, really, there's no such thing. There's just actors. "
Noah Hawley
Just
I Can
Fun
" Half of a broadcast show, in my experience, is things happening, and the other half is people talking about how they feel about the things that happened. And so there's this sense of everyone saying their subtext out loud. "
Noah Hawley
People
Show
Feel
" Everyone always says that conflict is drama, and I agree, but I also don't think you need drama everywhere. Or conflict everywhere. "
Noah Hawley
Think
Agree
Conflict
" 'Fargo' becomes a metaphor for a type of true crime case where truth is stranger than fiction. So, there's no reason that there isn't another 10-hour true crime story that could be told in this region. "
Noah Hawley
Truth Is
Truth
Crime
" The job at broadcast is to figure out what the dumbest person in the room is going to think. That's not the case at FX. "
Noah Hawley
Dumbest
Person
Room
" I'm a big believer that the structure of stories should reflect the content of the story. "
Noah Hawley
Story
Structure
Big
" Having written for film and television, I had little interest in turning 'The Good Father' into a Hollywood thriller. I was writing a novel, and novels demand that the writer goes deeper, both emotionally and thematically. "
Noah Hawley
Television
Good
Film
" There is a difference between movie actors and TV acting, especially with movie stars, which is they know their face is 20 feet high on the screen. They know they don't have to do much. "
Noah Hawley
High
Face
Acting
" In a traditional TV show or movie, your hero is always where the action is. But in real life, at the end of the movie 'Fargo,' when Bill Macy is arrested, Marge is nowhere to be found because it's a different jurisdiction, and she wouldn't be there. I took that to heart. "
Noah Hawley
End
Heart
She
" I was part of a writers' collective with 21 writers and filmmakers called the San Francisco Writers' Grotto. We had our own office space in this old converted dog and cat hospital, and we had a basketball hoop outside. I'd bring my dog to work every day and write. "
Noah Hawley
Dog
Day
Cat
" I am a salesman, I am an executive, I look at budgets, I think about power politics, but then I am also a creative person. "
Noah Hawley
Power
Politics
Creative
" There is the moral spectrum in 'Fargo,' and you see it in other Coen brothers movies, where you have a very good character on one end and a very bad character on the other. "
Noah Hawley
Good
You
Movies
" The great thing about 'Fargo' is that it's a more objective style of filmmaking: the camera moves in very classical ways, and the most interesting things normally are the characters. "
Noah Hawley
More
Camera
Great
" I'm Kubrick without the O.C.D. "
Noah Hawley
Kubrick
Without
" I think the age of the modern media campaign has created a new icon, the celebrity-in-chief. Political elections have become wars fought by candidates with opposing values. "
Noah Hawley
Think
Age
Media
" Bringing back stamp collecting and bringing back bridge seems like a pretty good way to fight the modern world. "
Noah Hawley
Back
World
Good
" I pitched the idea to FX that there's this larger 'Fargo' universe where there's true crime in the upper Midwest, and I can tell stories from any era of that. Maybe they connect to the first season or the movie, or maybe they don't. It's just a style of storytelling. We're under the auspices of being a true story that isn't true. "
Noah Hawley
Crime
Universe
True
" Tension is all about, 'Why is this taking so long?' The interesting thing about that is that it's also the tension of comedy. The tension of drama and comedy is similar, and that's why usually you can get a big laugh in a really tense moment because people need that release. "
Noah Hawley
Long
People
Interesting
" I'm attracted to ensembles: you get a lot of really good moving pieces. It's sort of like a horse race in a way, especially when you know that everyone is on this collision course. It's like, 'Who's going to make it?' And you can put people together in unexpected pairings. "
Noah Hawley
Horse
People
Moving
" I don't think we have to suffer personally to make great art. If you're prepared and organized, and you know what you're looking for, you can make great art and then go home. "
Noah Hawley
Know
Think
Looking
" When I took on 'Fargo,' I thought, 'Well, this is just a terrible idea. Four people will watch it, and they'll hate-watch.' But that allowed me to just go for it and take the risks. "
Noah Hawley
Go For It
Risks
Me
" I did some feature work, then tried TV. I was always very aware that the only power that you have is the power of options. If the film industry dries up, then you focus on the TV or the books. For me, it was always about what story do I want to tell next? "
Noah Hawley
Power
Me
You