Noah Hawley Quotes

United States, Writer
1967

Noah Hawley is an American television writer and producer, screenwriter, and bestselling author, best known for creating and writing the FX television series Fargo (2014–present) and Legion (2017–present). Hawley earlier worked on the television series Bones (2005–2008), The Unusuals (2009), and My Generation (2010).

Also known as Television Producer, Screenwriter

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

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My feeling has always been if you entertain people, they give you permission to do more on a thematic or character level.

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There are things we can control and the things we can't control. I can't control how people react to the work I do.

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- Work
- Control
- React
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 end. At the same time, the best stories are character-driven.

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There's still nothing like a book to really make you feel like you've disappeared into a world.

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- World
- Book
- Disappeared
Greatness and fiasco is the same. You're reaching for something just out of your grasp, and if you get it, it's great, and if you don't, it's a disaster.

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There's only one note you ever get in broadcast and that's clarity.

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- Clarity
- Note
- Broadcast
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 get it,' it's worth looking at.

Noah Hawley

There's the craft of acting, and then there's a quality. There's a quality that someone has.

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- Quality
- Acting
- Craft
In a book you can really talk about ideas and themes and characters in a deeper way than you can even on the screen.

Noah Hawley
- Book
- Ideas
- Screen