Noah Hawley Quotes

When I first walked into Uber, it was very difficult because people were unsure about what was going to happen - there was a real sense of powerlessness.

The world that we all knew before, could wake up in feeling safe... now it seems that everything has been turned upside down.

We are going through a terrible crisis. We do not know exactly what is going to happen, but in our hearts the pendulum of the seismograph is already swinging.

Anything that keeps me off balance is vital.

We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not.

I don't think we should tell them what we're going to do in advance. Let them think. Worry. Wonder. Uncertainty is the most chilling thing of all.

I don't seek discomfort. But, very often, you realise that what you fear is actually quite ephemeral; something's different, something's unfamiliar; therefore, it must be worse.

I think right now in the world we're feeling like there's no solid ground beneath our feet, you know?

I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary.

All great changes are irksome to the human mind, especially those which are attended with great dangers and uncertain effects.

When something is new, it creates a new kind of fear.

In my teens, I eyed my adulthood with trepidation, as if stalked by a stranger - one who would seize control as if by demonic possession and regard my fledgling incarnation with contempt.

The unknown makes people uncomfortable.

I think threat of change is pretty potent. In humans, blood pressure doesn't go up when people get laid off: it goes up when they first hear rumors that layoffs are coming at the end of the month.

The unknown is always scary.

Ambiguity is our permanent state, isn't it? We don't like it being so. Most of us crave order and routine, and yet yawning before us is our future, as frightening as it is thrilling.

Some people are just weird when you're on a plane - it's the same during a renovation. It stresses them out.

Change is all about motion, motion is all about uncertainty and we are deeply uncomfortable with uncertainty.

What's scary is the unknown, the stuff you can't put your finger on.

Terror?often arises from a pervasive sense of disestablishment; that things are in the unmaking.

At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .

There's always fear. Always fear. Anyone who says they are not afraid is lying to you. Because this can all change tomorrow.

I think most people are afraid of what they don't know.

Not knowing the thing that's chasing you is a lot scarier than seeing it right in front of you.

There are moments in 'Body Snatchers' that touch the sort of thing that I find scary... like isolation and the inability to trust even familiar things. But - is that a horror movie - or a thriller? I don't really know the difference.