I read every draft of every episode of every series produced at FX.

I think maybe the most important thing that I or anybody at my company and any of my colleagues can do is establish a trusting, productive, collaborative relationship with creative people.

It is the pure arrogance of the newly rich and the newly powerful to think content is easy.

That's the definition of a mini-series. A mini-series is a show that has no continuing story or narrative elements between one group of episodes and another, so no, I wasn't surprised.

The amount of competition is just literally insane.

We've actually bought quite a number of historical pieces. We are doing a piece on the abolitionists, Harper's Ferry and the abolitionist John Brown with Paul Giamatti.

There are no characters in the limited series Fargo that are derived from the characters in the film Fargo. It's hard to describe how remarkably true to the film the show is.

It's easier to solve the problem more quickly with directors than with writers.

I believe really deeply in the pilot process because you learn things about tone and casting.

I think the possibility of continuing on a comedy is greater than a drama.

I think a shotgun or a handgun that has a six-round clip is a very good, perfectly adequate weapon for self-defense, in the home. You simply can't create that kind of mayhem, if you have to reload.

Never exact of a friend in adversity what you would require in prosperity.

Something needn't be large to be good.

What surprised me was that within a family, the voices of sisters as they're talking are virtually always the same.

Women still get angry at me. I mean, men go after me sometimes, but most of the bad responses come from women.

It is more difficult ... to rule the King's favorites than for the favorites to rule the King.

Idolatry is when you become the source of your own joy. Poverty of spirit is a wonderful thing.

All must yield to the weight of years; conquest is not difficult for time.

I'd love to be in a 1910s film - the era between the corsets and losing the corsets.

You little fool. You thought you could defeat the most powerful being on Earth.

I wore dresses all the time. I like to wear dresses.