Television Quotes by Noah Hawley

12 Television quotes by Noah Hawley

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Hawley’s storytelling chops give him a keen eye for television trends. These twelve quotes provide a succinct glimpse into his analytical take on the medium.

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I remain a huge 'Game of Thrones' fan.

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The job at broadcast is to figure out what the dumbest person in the room is going to think. That's not the…

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

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

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It used to be for writers that that six seasons and a movie thing, that's the holy grail as writers - your…

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I think people used to read 'War and Peace,' and now they don't; now they sit around with their tablets and watch…

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TV is all about learning to write in someone else's voice, so if you do it long enough without selling your own…

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

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

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Half of a broadcast show, in my experience, is things happening, and the other half is people talking about how they feel…

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'Downton Abbey' didn't have the impact it had just because it was a good story about people. It was something about that…

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Making a new season for 'Legion' is not something you just switch into. It's not something you do between dropping the kids…

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For some reason, I tend to take on the stuff that people are really passionate about. If you make a list of people you…

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One of the things that I've always appreciated about the 'X-Men' style of storytelling versus other Marvel stories is how fluid the line between…

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One of the things I've always loved about genre, comic books, science fiction and fantasy is that there's a certain level of playfulness to…

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

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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…

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Obviously, when you do something with drama and comedy in it - and by that, I mean a scene that has drama and comedy…

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The last thing you want is to be desperate in Hollywood.

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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…

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I think a writer's first job is to entertain, even in novels: to tell a compelling story that pulls the reader along toward an…

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

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