Noah Hawley Quotes

You turned on the radio and heard all kinds of things.

For me, until I know that the audience really gets what I'm trying to communicate I'm not done.

Content is king, but context is God.

You have to work very hard behind the scenes, to make a message clear enough for a lot of people to understand.

The medium is the message.

Whatever story you want to tell, tell it at the right size.

Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.

I'm running a radio station.

Radio is a device which allows people who don’t have anything to do to listen to people who don’t know how to do anything.

You know when you're telling these little stories? Here's a good idea: have a point. It makes it so much more interesting for the listener!

Having the right message is what matters. It's not who you reach, it's what you say.

The medium is secondary to the stories.

I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing — to be clear.

I never thought it was my style or the words I used that made a difference. It was the content. I wasn't a great communicator, but I communicated great things.

Never think, because you cannot write a letter easily, that it is better not to write at all. The most awkward note imaginable is better than none.

An expert is someone who takes something you already know and makes it sound confusing.

I'm clearer now in what I want to say, and I know better how to say just that.

I've always been more interested in the content of our newspapers, political positions day to day, the thrill of communicating with people through words that I am in the pure business aspects.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.

If we want to be heard we must speak in a language the listener can understand and on a level at which the listener is capable of operating.

You want the audience to get your movie, and you want the audience to like it. It's as simple as that. If they don't understand what you're trying to say, you've failed. Of course, you can't get 100 percent of the crowd to understand the movie, but you know when you've reached the people you want to reach.

The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you can't understand them. The best sentence? The shortest.

I think that all money can do is to get your message out. Unfortunately, we live in a world where you have to use mass media to communicate with the people, and it just costs an awful lot of money.

Television is what we're all very attracted to because that's where the best writing and the best characters are.

Which, then, brings us closer to what we want to communicate: saying what we intend, or trying to say the opposite?