American - Producer | 1967 -
I think the age of the modern media campaign has created a new icon, the celebrity-in-chief. Political elections have become wars fought by candidates with opposing values.
Noah Hawley
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What success has done is present me with a lot of opportunities, and I haven't necessarily learned to say 'no' as well as I should have.
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If there's one thing that television doesn't really do, and has never really done, is to tell a surreal story.
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I would have loved to have been in the room with the ABC executives when they watched David Lynch's 'Mulholland Drive' TV pilot. You know that had to be a long silence after that thing stopped.
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Anytime you want to create something different, you have to convince people that it's O.K. 'We'll be O.K. It's going to work out. It's going to be great.'
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I don't think we have to suffer personally to make great art. If you're prepared and organized, and you know what you're looking for, you can make great art and then go home.
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I try to approach the film medium as a novelist and the novel medium as a filmmaker on some level. It's that question: Do we think in pictures, or do we think in language? And the novelist believes one thing, and the filmmaker believes another thing - and I'm fascinated by that balance.
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I don't write these stories for the rewards that come back to me. I write them because I have to write them. It's a sickness on some level. It's a compulsion.
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I guess I still have this motto: 'What else can I get away with?' And unpredictability in film - that's the hardest thing there is.
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Bringing back stamp collecting and bringing back bridge seems like a pretty good way to fight the modern world.
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The great thing about 'Fargo' is that it's a more objective style of filmmaking: the camera moves in very classical ways, and the most interesting things normally are the characters.
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As a storyteller, you have the story that you tell, and you have the way you can tell it, and both are equally important.
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