Timothy Olyphant Quotes

I don't care about the size of the roles, or how they're marketed or billed or anything like that. I would love to be a part of stories that tell us about where we've come from, where we are, where we're going - with great directors.

No great television show has ever rested on just one person. They're all about great ensembles and storytelling.

We think we've got great stories and characters that will lend themselves to great standalone experiences, and that's the way we're focusing on it.

The idea was always going to be that each year is a stand-alone story, which did make it easier on some level. It also requires the network to have the creative imagination to say, 'This is also 'Fargo,'' you know what I mean?

Considerations of plot do a great deal of heavy lifting when it comes to long-form narrative - readers will overlook the most ham-fisted prose if only a writer can make them long to know what happens next.

For me, I look at a pilot and go, 'I see the landscape. I see the characters. I see the direction and the potential of the story.' And I also go, 'That didn't work. I could change that. Maybe that works. I don't know. We'll see.' For me, I look at it, as an actor, as what can I improve upon?

A great director is someone who makes you feel like you're moving forward.

If you continue to plow ahead in something that is OK, you will miss the opportunity to do something that is great.

Change is REFINEMENT. Change is GROWTH. Change is MOVEMENT. Change is OPPORTUNITY.

Whatever you do in your daily life - driving from here to there, trying to reach someone on the phone, doing this or that - you always are going toward somewhere. That's inevitable.

It doesn't really matter how fast you're going if you're heading in the wrong direction.

We've got all the ingredients for a sensational future.

We could not have gotten where we are without coming the way we came.

Impossibility is only a sum of greater unrealised possibles. It veils an advanced stage and a yet unaccomplished journey.

There's a lot of things we could do better.

It's not where you start or where you finish. It is the distance between the two.

If a character is going to end up one way, you start them a certain way. If they're gonna end up the polar opposite of that, you might start them differently to have dramatic integrity to their journey.

Where you stand today does not matter; it is the direction in which your are moving, and the rate at which you travel, that count.

Every good thing that has happened in your life happened because something changed.

Challenges mean opportunities as well.

I think he's got good potential, but he needs a lot of work.

Look at the potential for America. Look at the direction we've been going. Look at the direction we need to go.

Higher has always been the trajectory of intelligent evolution.

Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.

What wonderful thing didn't start out scary?