Noah Hawley

I'm Kubrick without the O.C.D.

— Noah Hawley

People, they don't know how to bend; they just break.

— Noah Hawley

It's good to be unexpected with it.

— Noah Hawley

I remain a huge 'Game of Thrones' fan.

— Noah Hawley

“mortal man. He saw a being”

— Noah Hawley

What makes something tragic is that it could've been averted at multiple points.

— Noah Hawley

“Life can paralyze us, freeze us into statues if we think about things too long.”

— Noah Hawley

“Death, so permanent for the dead, should be more than just an afternoon activity for the mourners.”

— Noah Hawley

Bringing back stamp collecting and bringing back bridge seems like a pretty good way to fight the modern world.

— Noah Hawley

“Just because two things happen in sequence, doesn't mean there's a casual relationship”

— Noah Hawley

Let me be clear. 'The Good Father' isn't a handbook on how to assassinate the president.

— Noah Hawley

Let's not forget how beautiful simply washing dishes can be.

— Noah Hawley

I'm a big believer that the structure of stories should reflect the content of the story.

— Noah Hawley

I think for really good-hearted people, that idea of putting yourself in the shoes of a monster to figure out why they…

— Noah Hawley

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…

— Noah Hawley

I love the idea that the editing room is the final time you write. You should still be creatively solving problems even…

— Noah Hawley

The great amount of fun that I have is I can cast dramatic actors to play comedic roles, and I can cast…

— Noah Hawley

“There are things in this world that no human being should be able to endure. We should die of heartbreak, but we…

— Noah Hawley

Making 'Fargo' for FX has been the highlight of my career. A writer can search his or her whole career for a…

— Noah Hawley

When Fox asked me if I'd consider taking on The X-Men universe for television, my first thought was, 'What would you do…

— Noah Hawley

My feeling is there's a lot of straight drama on television. My goal in life is to try to create something unexpected,…

— Noah Hawley

The most dangerous thing, when you have a serious mental illness, is convincing yourself that you don't have it. And you see…

— Noah Hawley

There have been days where I've had two writers' rooms or three writers' rooms going, and you walk back and forth. And…

— Noah Hawley

'Fargo' is a tragedy with a happy ending. So you need to have that tragic underpinning, that all of this could be…

— Noah Hawley

What's great is that each medium has a unique set of things that it does and does well. Film is a visual…

— Noah Hawley

As for my schedule, I tend to go to bed at the same time every night and get up at the same…

— Noah Hawley

Writing is this odd act, right? To sit and type, or write by hand, or whatever people do. And it requires a…

— Noah Hawley

A two-hour movie tends to be a plot-delivery device; you tend to have to introduce all the characters, say what the goal…

— Noah Hawley

There's this common sense idea that in order to appeal to the biggest number of people, you have to write something very…

— Noah Hawley

“know that. He is part of the cycle now, the endless worrying. Whitewashed floorboards creak underfoot as he pads into the living…

— Noah Hawley

There's still nothing like a book to really make you feel like you've disappeared into a world.

— Noah Hawley

You need a good James Clavell novel, I think, to make a good miniseries.

— Noah Hawley

“I'm sorry," I said, "did you just say elections are about hope?”

— Noah Hawley

I think this idea of fighting the enemy within is sort of more interesting than fighting an external enemy.

— Noah Hawley

If there's one thing that television doesn't really do, and has never really done, is to tell a surreal story.

— Noah Hawley

“The things Sarah called problems were wholly elective eg no first class seats, a leaking sailboat”

— Noah Hawley

The thing that scares us the most is when familiar things operate in unfamiliar ways.

— Noah Hawley

The anthology format is completely normal to me. That's just how TV works in my experience.

— Noah Hawley

“On the edge of things was the sound of the ocean, that tectonic drum, the heartbeat of the earth.”

— Noah Hawley

There's only one note you ever get in broadcast and that's clarity.

— Noah Hawley