Noah Hawley Quotes

Great art, the more specific you are, the more universal it becomes, and that's the thing that I loved about 'The Wire.'

You always hope you'll surprise somebody with the work. If you write something human and appealing, the perfect reader could be anyone.

And that's what people want to see when they go to the theater. I believe at the end of the day, they want to see themselves - parts of their lives they can recognize. And I feel if I can achieve that, it's pretty spectacular.

I try and create for the audience something that relates to real-life experience.

Whenever I perform, people get me because I'm talking about things that people can identify with and relate to. I'm not just up there doing jokey, jokey, joke.

One of the main pitfalls of any theoretically 'niche' show is that you spend too much time on the 'niche' and not enough time on the 'show.'

These guys at Fox knew that as a filmmaker, I could always tell different types of stories and each can emotionally connect to a universal audience.

I guess I'm trying to write stuff that I, as a viewer, would connect to.

I love to be a vessel through which characters can come through. And if I can move an audience with my work, then I've done my job.

The reason I think the shows I do are successful with a wider public is because they tap into something that's beyond dance and is about being told a story. That's what people want.

Actors do movies because you want to make a connection; you want an audience to recognise themselves in what it is that you're depicting.

At the end of the day, I would like to have the farthest reach in terms of being able to communicate to as many people as possible. So it's not that I enjoy being obscure; it's that I sonically don't want to be situated here or there.

I pretty much made a conscious decision to make projects a lot of people can relate to.

I guess that's the big challenge of any art: Do you want to be something for everyone or everything for someone?

You have to present characters an audience can relate to.

Most successful musicals need to attach themselves to something bigger than themselves, a concept that will make people feel immediately connected to it.

I'm an actor, and I want to play flawed characters, and I'm a writer that wants to write flawed characters, trying to let something out and hoping people relate through that or have fun experiencing the story.

Our goal is to focus on the unique points of view of our show creators but make shows that have broad appeal.

Cinema is a director's medium; it's his story and his vision. If it's a good story, people will connect to it.

As a writer, every time I create a character, I try to go for something to captivate the audience in some way. It's also an extension of how the audience would like to see themselves.

A good score should have a point of view all of its own. It should transcend all that has gone before, stand on its own two feet and still serve the movie. A great soundtrack is all about communicating with the audience, but we all try to bring something extra to the movie that is not entirely evident on screen.

I don't have an ideal reader. I'm trying to reach something simple and, I believe, universal, in every single person.

For me a film is at its best when you can start filling in the story with your own life experience.

I've always thought that, in a sense, the more specific and sometimes even the smaller the world of a movie is, the more universal it is.

On a superhero show, you have to have people who are really human and who have the experience the audience is having.