
Top 24 Landgraf Quotes
#1. If you think about how broadcast mini-series approach historical events, there is a hagiography. There has been a soft, very glossy idea about history. And one of the things I like about Game of Thrones, for example, is just the grit and the authenticity.
John Landgraf
#2. When we forgive we are telling God that we have faith in him to fight our injustices. It might not seem possible when you are standing in a storm, but when you take the high road you can see farther than you can now.
Shannon L. Alder
#3. 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.
John Landgraf
#4. I read every draft of every episode of every series produced at FX.
John Landgraf
#5. 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.
John Landgraf
#6. What changes with fame is the perceptions of the individual rather than the individual.
Julia Roberts
#7. I think the possibility of continuing on a comedy is greater than a drama.
John Landgraf
#8. I don't think I ever had any relationship with any showrunner, over time, with whom I didn't have conflict.
John Landgraf
#9. Individual human beings are all tools, that the others use to help us all survive." "That's a lie." "No. It's just a half truth. You can worry about the other half after we win this war.
Orson Scott Card
#10. The amount of competition is just literally insane.
John Landgraf
#11. 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.
John Landgraf
#12. 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.
John Landgraf
#13. As long as cameras are around no artist will be free of bewilderment.
Robert Smithson
#14. Reality television was in some ways being unimaginative at that time. We were excited about the possibilities of the form, to use real people as your stars, to not be about winning, to be about going on complicated, challenging, funny, dramatic journeys.
John Landgraf
#15. We may believe we are seeking happiness in love, but what we are really after is familiarity.
The School Of Life
#16. a man who was friendly with everyone was an enemy to himself.
Mike Tyson
#17. I'm sure civilizations will still evolve through play, or rather as play, since that seems to be a fundamental mechanism of our humanity.
Diane Ackerman
#18. It is the pure arrogance of the newly rich and the newly powerful to think content is easy.
John Landgraf
#19. I believe really deeply in the pilot process because you learn things about tone and casting. Even some of our best shows have had substantial re-shoots and reworking before they've gone on the air.
John Landgraf
#20. 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.
John Landgraf
#21. I thought in 1965 that my job was to convince most Americans to be against the war. So I spent summers knocking on doors, handing out literature, trying to talk to people who didn't agree with me, trying to get them to see the war was wrong. And by 1968 a majority of Americans did oppose the war.
Bill Ayers
#22. Murder! Sex! Violence! Hardships! Mayhem! Struggle! Love! Camaraderie!...what's not to like?
Larry Landgraf
#23. Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#24. On the small scale, 'Ico,' I think, actually delivered a small new thing: holding a character's hand and really feeling like your job is to rescue this person, and establishing a personal connection.
Warren Spector
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