I believe really deeply in the pilot process because you learn things about tone and casting.

I think maybe the most important thing that I or anybody at my company and any of my colleagues can do is establish a trusting, productive, collaborative relationship with creative people.

It is the pure arrogance of the newly rich and the newly powerful to think content is easy.

That's the definition of a mini-series. A mini-series is a show that has no continuing story or narrative elements between one group of episodes and another, so no, I wasn't surprised.

The amount of competition is just literally insane.

I read every draft of every episode of every series produced at FX.

We've actually bought quite a number of historical pieces. We are doing a piece on the abolitionists, Harper's Ferry and the abolitionist John Brown with Paul Giamatti.

There are no characters in the limited series Fargo that are derived from the characters in the film Fargo. It's hard to describe how remarkably true to the film the show is.

It's easier to solve the problem more quickly with directors than with writers.

I think the possibility of continuing on a comedy is greater than a drama.

I think a shotgun or a handgun that has a six-round clip is a very good, perfectly adequate weapon for self-defense, in the home. You simply can't create that kind of mayhem, if you have to reload.

It’s your call. You want to go back home, go ahead. But if I were you, I wouldn’t. Home is death.

When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night.

There is life in the ground; it goes into the seeds and also when it is stirred up goes into the man who stirs it.

You can't take life for granted.

It is better to be lonely than allow people who are not going anywhere keep you from your destiny.

It takes a leader to know a leader, grow a leader, and show a leader.

I think achieving a higher fiscal stability is also a very important condition for restoring an environment which is conducive to growth...

Without God, all of our efforts turn to ashes and our sunrise into the darkest of nights.

The work of God in the cross of Christ strikes us as awe-inspiring only after we have first been awed by the glory of God.

Every man must be for the United States or against it. There can be no neutrals in this war; only patriots and traitors.