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.

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.

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

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.

But now, here she was, very wishful to pray, while not knowing how to explain her dilemma: ‘I’m terribly unhappy, dear, unprobable God—’ would not be a very propitious beginning.

You have the face of a man who gently caresses field flowers and dandelions. And a smile that is like a dagger, cutting the sun in halves.

Focus your mind on love, peace and harmony.It will vanish fear, doubt and disharmony.

Life is a flash of lightning in the dark of night. It is a brief time of tremendous potential.

Parents know how to push your buttons because, hey, they sewed them on

Colour could give rise to sensations which would interfere with our conception of space.

I dreamed of becoming a writer. And this dream is about to become a reality with the publication of my first, and hopefully not my last, children's book.

I train for one-and-a-half hours every day in order to keep my energy level high.

The living all assemble! What's the cue?-- Do what the clumsy partner wants to do!

They say the two most important days in a person's life were the day you were born and the day you discover why you were born.