Noah Hawley Quotes

Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.

For me, there is only love and fear.

Maybe it's because I'm a little naive, but I do like to think that there aren't really very many truly bad people in the world. I think that everybody has their reasons for what they do, and if you really look through their eyes, you could probably understand them.

It is easier to hate an enemy with much good in him than one who is all bad. We cannot hate those we despise.

Why does God endow us with compassion?

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

All cruelty springs from weakness.

In order to make characters real - no matter what the character is doing - you have to see yourself as capable of having done that.

I never see my bad guys as simply bad. They want pretty much the same thing that you and I want: they want to be happy.

We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual defeat and our likeness to what we hate.

Love soothes wounds, while hatred and violence deepen them.

Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.

Perhaps it is as well to keep an open and charitable mind, and to try to understand why people do things instead of condemning the acts themselves

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

I don't hate people. I just accept missions.

We must not allow the horrific actions of madmen to cut us off from our humanity.

There is no forgiveness, justice, or healing on any level when hate is involved.

I think as long as I can tell you a story about people that you understand, it doesn't matter if you don't like what they do; you understand why they did it.

I can find some part of me that relates to even the most evil characters. At least in my imagination.

'Ida' is about humanity, about guilt and forgiveness. It's not a film that deals with an issue as such. It's more universal.

I believe there's good in everybody.

I want to be a man who serves my family, a man who increases justice in my community. I want to be all of those things, and yet it is just below the surface that I want to strangle somebody when they cut in front of me on the freeway.

I've seen too much hate to want to hate, myself.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

One shouldn't be afraid of the humans. Well, I am not afraid of the humans, but of what is inhuman in them.