Noah Hawley

I'm attracted to ensembles: you get a lot of really good moving pieces. It's sort of like a horse race in a…

— 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

It's good to be unexpected with it.

— Noah Hawley

The prospect of being a father made me ask myself a question. How do you know what kind of adult your child…

— Noah Hawley

I'm on a lot of airplanes. There are definitely times when I just vapor-lock. I'm on the plane, and I have so…

— 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

“You need hope to form a thought. It takes—I don’t know—optimism to speak, to engage in conversation. Because, really, what’s the point…

— Noah Hawley

“Staring up at me, hearing my tired voice, he reached out his tiny hand. He knew me, even though he had never…

— Noah Hawley

“You bring a child into this fractious, chaotic world out of the heat of your womb, and then spend the next ten…

— Noah Hawley

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

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

A novel is a relationship, you know? When you read a book, the writer has done half the work, and you're doing…

— 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

I think the age of the modern media campaign has created a new icon, the celebrity-in-chief. Political elections have become wars fought…

— Noah Hawley

The danger of writing a so-called thriller is that in your last 100 pages, all of these really interesting characters you've created…

— Noah Hawley

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

— 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

I always feel like you can take a genre that has a familiar structure to it and then reinvent it as a…

— Noah Hawley

We're used to a story in modern terms as an information delivery device. Certainly on television and even with the studio films,…

— Noah Hawley

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

— Noah Hawley

“But you grew out of it.” “Grew? No. I burned it all down, drank myself into a stupor, pissed off everyone I…

— Noah Hawley

I don't write these stories for the rewards that come back to me. I write them because I have to write them.…

— Noah Hawley

There's a degree to which music bypasses our rational brain and accesses our emotional core in a way that's really visceral and…

— Noah Hawley

You've got to give an audience something to root for. The minute you get into more dystopian shows, where everything's really dark,…

— 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