I don't think I ever had any relationship with any showrunner, over time, with whom I didn't have conflict.

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

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

Obviously, there are conservatives who are in the mainstream and conservatives who would take people's rights away.

It takes a great deal of time and thought to install work carefully. This should not always be thrown away. Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved again.

It's not meant to be entertaining. If you want entertainment, go to the pictures. This is serious!

I had a Tesla. I was one of the first cats with a Tesla. But I'm telling you, I've been on the side of the road a while in that thing.

In your company or industry, work every job in that industry. It's the only way of having a complete understanding of your people and your company.

Capitalism Survive?—I have tried to show that a socialist form of society will inevitably emerge from an equally inevitable decomposition of capitalist society.

Gossip lies nine times and tells a half truth the tenth.

The best anyone can do is breathe in, breathe out and wait for it to pass.

When it's all you, you can't blame a bear. You gotta bear the burden yourself.

You could tell a lot about a man by the books he keeps - his tastes, his interest, his habits.