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.

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.

Marryin' is the one thing people seem to get worse at the more they do it. Well, that and bein' alive.

Be happy today, let the past bury and let the future fly.

We can be convicted of sin—we can pray and confess our sin—we can repent—but the real test is our willingness to obey.

Social change doesn’t happen overnight: It takes decades for momentum to build and for the once-radical edge to become mainstream.

I was lucky to be in the right place at the right time. But many others were also in the same place. The difference was that I took action.

I want people to know their palate is a snowflake. We all like different things. Why should we all have the same taste in wines?

We must always remember that the police are recruited from the criminal classes.

Killing time is not an easy job.

I find intelligence sexy. I find a sense of humor sexy. I find sensitivity sexy.

Do not be obsessed by egotism, imagining that you are the cause of action, everything is due to God.