60 Quotes by John Landgraf

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

Reality television was in some ways being unimaginative at that time. We were excited about the possibilities of the form, to use real people as your stars, to not be about winning, to be about going on complicated, challenging, funny, dramatic journeys.

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.

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.

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.

I don’t think I ever had any relationship with any showrunner, over time, with whom I didn’t have conflict.

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.

Information technology and the Internet are rapidly transforming almost every aspect of our lives - some for better, some for worse.

I'm not interested in world domination. I'm interested in running a nice little brand that takes care of its own and does really good work.