Noah Hawley

I started doing a lot of the second unit directing on the first season of Fargo, and then I just started doing the episodic world creation in season two.

I'm sure you had that moment the first time you're on a set and they go, what's next, boss?

And you don't know.

It's so scary.

And 200 people are staring at you.

I've gotten comfortable with that feeling, which is like, I just need a minute.

I'm going to figure it out.

Because then, of course, people start to offer suggestions, which isn't helpful and everything.

No, it was just about...

Finding the, again, as I said, the feeling.

And I don't have any training on this.

And, you know, so a lot of it for me, you know, there's a moment on Alien Earth.

I did that fifth hour, which was the trapped in the spaceship, you know, hour where...

You know, you see what happened before the ship crashed.

And, you know, this moment where Richard Morjani was running away from the xenomorph and she was hiding and she was pressed against a wall and we could see down the hallway and the xenomorph came out.

And I thought...

Well, I want to do a push in here, but let's do a zoom.

And what if we zoom on her and then we, you know, we do it as a lock off and then I do a longer zoom on the xenomorph and then I marry those two things.

It's kind of an impossible shot.

I don't know if it's going to work or not work, but I know it'll give you a feeling, right?