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.

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.

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.

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.

Unhappy people do the oddest, most terrible things, just trying to keep despair at bay. All you have to do is accept them...go around them...take evasive action.

A baby is a symbol of hope for the future.

I have no way of knowing whether the events that I am about to narrate are effects or causes.

Aren't we all waiting to be read by someone, praying that they'll tell us that we make sense?

Our domestic affections are the most salutary basis of all good government.

Player haters be givin' me harsh looks, But I'm tryin to sell records like Garth Brooks.

I shouldn't have named the chimps. It wasn't scientific. I didn't know. I knew nothing. And worse sin of all was that I was ascribing to them emotions like happiness, sadness and so forth.

Leadership is learned, earned, and discerned. You develop it. It's based on trust and credibility. Others see it in you. You can't demand it.

Homes-the very idea of homeownership-evoke a strong emotional reaction in all of us.

I like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work.