Noah Hawley Quotes

My dream as a producer is to be able to build a company that can be a safe haven for artists, for directors and for writers and actors to do what they do best and let them have final edit. I'd like to build something to that effect.

You can never tell when an artist really will take up someone's work and work with it happily.

That's what I've always wanted to do - work with my favorite writers and make something from scratch with them that we can feel like didn't exist before we came in the room.

Jeph Loeb has been great to work with, and he's been really supportive of some really bizarre ideas I've had.

If I can do quality work with wonderful writers and directors and producers... that's the cherry on top.

I like working with directors I respect, who give me freedom but also give me a good base from which to work.

As far as I am concerned, the first episode of Buffy was the beginning of my career. It was the first time I told a story from start to finish the way I wanted.

As an actor and a writer, the anxiety about doing TV is that you start to feel like you get married to one tone or one kind of idea and you feel like you want to be able to express a lot of different things.

Created stuff is meant to be shared. That’s why the creative person created it. Why else do creative people exist?

I think, like any artist or any writer, I just want to have that pure freedom of expression and of thought - the freedom to explore and move in unexpected ways.

Working with Olivia Colman has probably been the highlight of my career so far.

I put on the canvas whatever comes into my mind.

When I think back on the work that I've been able to do and the work in my career of the highest quality, a huge portion of that has been on HBO. That didn't happen by accident.

When I started off as an actor, the last thing I wanted to do in the world was make money. I was under the impression, when I started off as an actor, that the more money I made, the more it would diminish from my creativity and my capacity to be an artist.

I simply don't want to enter the rat race. I like doing movies because I like acting and not because I want to reach the top.

Netflix is looking for interesting ideas from interesting creators. They really want to help me make the show I want to make.

I'd love more production houses to encourage artists to create what they want and not just churn things out.

I feel happy that I am being honoured for doing films of my own liking.

Cinema is a creative medium. The director has the right to express.

That's the thing about creating. When you create, you create your own thing, whatever that is. It's always going to seep through in whatever you do.

I want to highlight this, that to make meaningful cinema, we really need an enabling environment and freedom to express.

I'll be honest: I had a real deep-seated fear that 'Buffy' was going to be my peak. It was such a beautiful experience. It was such a fully realized show.

While I don't claim that I feel no pressure, I have strived to take up only those scripts that appeal to me. I've been lucky that the ones I chose were also liked by audiences.

An artiste can only be happy when he is true to his art.

Professional highlight of 2011 was definitely getting the job at ABC.