It's amazing how flexible the human mind is in terms of jumping into a backstory or an aside. Vonnegut is a great example - it's not a linear story b…

- Noah Hawley

I'm thirty-six years old and I've been married once and he left and I don't want to feel this way anymore. Like I can't be vulnerable. Can't relax. I…

- Noah Hawley

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

- Noah Hawley

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

- Noah Hawley

A two-hour movie tends to be a plot-delivery device; you tend to have to introduce all the characters, say what the goal is, and then get there with …

- Noah Hawley

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

- Noah Hawley

I see myself as a first-draft writer, so when I sit down to write something, the first draft is usually pretty close to the end draft. There will be …

- Noah Hawley

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

There's this overly friendly sense of community built up by very isolated people, and there's this Lutheran humbleness that keeps people from talking…

- Noah Hawley