Noah Hawley Quotes

No matter what, expect the unexpected. And whenever possible BE the unexpected.

I'm not a big fan of patterns. I like the unexpected.

I never want anything to be too predictable.

It's great to surprise people. If you do the same thing all over again, which people expect you to do, they're going to get bored.

I like to surprise myself. I like to surprise my fans, too.

Every once in a while, when the audience is expecting to see one thing, you have to show them something else.

The thing I have always tried to do is surprise people: to present them with something they didn't expect.

Part of my humor is the fact that I love coming out of left field. I don't want people to expect what is going to happen next.

I am happiest when I don't know what's coming next.

I feel the best way to respect my audience is to not give them what they expect from me... 'cause it's fun that way.

I like surprises. I like mystery. I’m not the kind of person who goes to the writer’s room and goes, I need to know the whole story so I can prepare. No, don’t tell me anything!

The biggest threat to a better life is the desire to keep the future under control - to make the world predictable by reining in creativity and enterprise. Progress as a neat blueprint, with no deviations and no surprise, may work in children's cartoons or utopian novels. But it's just a fantasy.

That's the tricky thing these days: being able to surprise people.

The less routine the more life.

I think it's good to have surprises in fashion because we always see the same things.

I'm not a creature of habit. I like to find things from unexpected sources.

Predictability is boring! I want a book to take me someplace I haven't been before, show me sights I haven't seen, make me ponder questions I may not have pondered before.

That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.

I'm a great believer in the beauty and the power of surprise.

People get surprised by my choices. But that comes from me looking for something new.

A lot of my work is a matter of reacting to surprises in life.

You never know how things are going to turn out in a movie. You can imagine a scene one way, and it can turn out to be completely the polar opposite of what you expected. You just have to roll with the punches.

What really excites me in a project is when it goes in a way you haven't been before.

Predictability is the cousin of death: I don't necessarily want people to see me coming. You know?

I'm always very excited by something that's a curveball or from left field.