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" The 'X-Men' stories are the stories of outsiders: people who don't fit into normal society and are ostracised; it's a metaphor for gender, race, or sexual orientation. "
Noah Hawley
Society
Gender
Normal
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" 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've always been really attracted to playing with structure. To take the story of 'Fargo' and break it up in such a way that's it's not linear, per se. "
Noah Hawley
Playing
Way
Structure
" I think that we're pattern-seeking animals, and what we like best is a story where everything fits together, where there's no puzzle pieces left over. "
Noah Hawley
Together
Story
Animals
" Anytime you want to create something different, you have to convince people that it's O.K. 'We'll be O.K. It's going to work out. It's going to be great.' "
Noah Hawley
Want
People
Great
" 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
" The great thing about making an ensemble show is it becomes modular. It might work on the page to cut from one scene to another, but on the screen, it's more powerful to take that second scene and move it first or move it later. "
Noah Hawley
Work
Page
Powerful
" Making a new season for 'Legion' is not something you just switch into. It's not something you do between dropping the kids off in the morning and having dinner at night. That's a retreat into the woods for six weeks with some mushrooms, and trying to come back with the answers. "
Noah Hawley
Night
Woods
Back
" 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
" As for my schedule, I tend to go to bed at the same time every night and get up at the same time every morning, and I try to be as productive as possible. Some days, I can devote to one specific thing. Other days, it's a catch-all day. "
Noah Hawley
Night
Time
Morning
" What success has done is present me with a lot of opportunities, and I haven't necessarily learned to say 'no' as well as I should have. "
Noah Hawley
Opportunities
Me
Success
" It's a human desire to be scared. On some level, that's how we survived - that sense of fear and danger. Our lives are much safer, so we gravitate to those stories that makes us feel those things and learn lessons, even if it's just, 'What are you doing? Don't go in the basement!' "
Noah Hawley
Desire
Learn
You
" What makes something tragic is that it could've been averted at multiple points. "
Noah Hawley
Makes
Multiple
Something
" The first dumb idea was to do it at all - to take 'Fargo,' this beloved classic, and turn it into a television show. The second dumb idea, when you do it and it works, was to throw everything out and start again. "
Noah Hawley
Start
You
Television
" When I sold my first book, 'A Conspiracy of Tall Men,' it was part of a two-book deal. It wasn't hugely lucrative, but it was enough money for me to quit the paralegal job I had in San Francisco. "
Noah Hawley
Enough
Me
Job
" I guess I still have this motto: 'What else can I get away with?' And unpredictability in film - that's the hardest thing there is. "
Noah Hawley
Film
The Hardest Thing
Away
" 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
" For some reason, I tend to take on the stuff that people are really passionate about. If you make a list of people you don't want to offend, it's Vonnegut readers, comic book fans, and Coen brothers enthusiasts. "
Noah Hawley
Book
People
Want
" When you're a writer on a show, your job is to write in the show runner's voice, really. "
Noah Hawley
Job
You
Writer
" I try to approach the film medium as a novelist and the novel medium as a filmmaker on some level. It's that question: Do we think in pictures, or do we think in language? And the novelist believes one thing, and the filmmaker believes another thing - and I'm fascinated by that balance. "
Noah Hawley
Think
Try
Balance
" As a storyteller, you have the story that you tell, and you have the way you can tell it, and both are equally important. "
Noah Hawley
Important
Way
Both
" 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
" 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
" The great thing about an anthology is that each year is its own 10-hour movie, and the only requirement is that it's the best 10-hour movie that I can make out of the story. "
Noah Hawley
I Can
Own
Best
" Experimental film by the '70s had become much more mainstream after 'Bonnie and Clyde' and stuff in the late '60s, when you were seeing bigger movies where people were exploring the medium a lot more. "
Noah Hawley
Movies
Seeing
People
" 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 idea was always going to be that each year is a stand-alone story, which did make it easier on some level. It also requires the network to have the creative imagination to say, 'This is also 'Fargo,' you know what I mean? "
Noah Hawley
Creative
Know
Imagination
" Let me be clear. 'The Good Father' isn't a handbook on how to assassinate the president. "
Noah Hawley
President
Father
Good
" The thing that scares us the most is when familiar things operate in unfamiliar ways. "
Noah Hawley
Most
Ways
Us
" If there's one thing that television doesn't really do, and has never really done, is to tell a surreal story. "
Noah Hawley
Television
Story
Tell