168 Quotes by Noah Hawley

You need hope to form a thought. It takes-I don’t know-optimism to speak, to engage in conversation. Because really, what’s the point of all this communicating? What difference does it really make what we say to each other? Or what we do, for that matter?

Isn’t it better to be happy with a problem,” he said, “than to be miserable with it?” Don’t wallow, Jack told a nation stumbling under recession. When life gets hard, you need to get harder. This.

They are looking for the smooth remains of bottles, shiny coins of broken glass worn smooth by the sea. This is what happens when things break. The pieces separate, scatter. They are battered by the elements, buffed and polished smooth, then deposited on far-off beaches. All your hopes and dreams.

As a storyteller, you have the story that you tell, and you have the way you can tell it, and both are equally important.

I'm a big believer that the structure of stories should reflect the content of the story.

One of the things I've always loved about genre, comic books, science fiction and fantasy is that there's a certain level of playfulness to them, and pure imagination and creativity.

In the TV business, you've got to write fast, and someone will tell you, 'Can you rewrite this episode before... 6 P.M.?' So that's when you rewrite it. You can't wait for the muse to show up.

What's great is that each medium has a unique set of things that it does and does well. Film is a visual medium, and obviously, you can't fit a whole book into two hours unless you're really economical about it. Obviously, they say a picture is worth a thousand words, and on some level, it's sort of true.

In 'The X-Men' world, one can be a hero one day and a villain the next, which means there's a constant battle for a character's soul that's dynamic. I find that really fascinating.