Noah Hawley Quotes
In a book you can really talk about ideas and themes and characters in a deeper way than you can even on the screen.
Some roads you shouldn't go down. Because maps used to say there were dragons here. Now they don't. But that don't mean the dragons aren't there.
There's still nothing like a book to really make you feel like you've disappeared into a world.
If I have to write on an airplane or get up early to write or write late, you just gotta sit down. When you have the time, you have to be able to do it.
My feeling has always been if you entertain people, they give you permission to do more on a thematic or character level.
In the TV business, you've got to write fast, and someone will tell you, "Can you rewrite this episode before... 6 p.m.?" So that's when you rewrite it. You can't wait for the muse to show up.
In this way he used her as the North Star on a journey where you always want to go south. It was helpful, aligning himself in this way. It gave him something to tune to, like a violin to a piano.
Art exists not inside the piece itself, but inside the mind of the viewer.
Everybody acts like the future is so far away, when really every moment that passes is the future.
Life is a series of decisions and reactions. It is the things you do and the things that are done to you.And then it's over.
There are things in this world that no human being should be able to endure. We should die of heartbreak, but we do not. Instead, we are forced to survive, to bear witness.
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.
