Noah Hawley

Well, no, I've always been playful and, you know, I've always been attracted to genre and elevating genre, you know, as character pieces, etc.

So, I don't know, you know, the first novel I published was called A Conspiracy of Tall Men and it was about

a professor of conspiracy theories whose wife is killed in a plane crash.

And he finally gets the conspiracy he's been looking for, but of course it's no solace, because he had to lose his wife to get it.

And it has a bit of a thriller quality.

It's also a little satirical.

I'm always just trying to figure out how does the story want to be told?

Yeah, well, believe me, I tell my kids every day, you got it good, you don't know how good you got it.

Right, right, for sure.

No, it's interesting, you know, because my daughter is 18, as I said, and if I look back at the last 20 years of stories that I've told, really, you know, I can't separate my...

identity as a parent from the stories I'm telling.

I look at Alien Earth, which is about these children whose minds are put into adult bodies, or Fargo season four, which is about these two crime bosses who trade their youngest sons.

There's always something that ties into like, who are we as a people?

How are we raising our children?

And what is moral and what is cynical?

And

how are we preparing our kids for the world?

Right, right, right.

Yeah.

It kind of depends on what phase I'm in, right?