Noah Hawley

Well, the one feeling that the movie, your first movie has, right, is the discovery of the life cycle of the creature.

Wait, it's an egg, and then the thing comes out and attaches to your face?

I'm out, right?

But then, no, it gets worse.

Then it falls off, and you think, oh, I'm hungry, and you have a meal, and it pops out of your fucking chest.

And then it grows to be 10 feet tall, and...

But that's the one feeling we can never get back for an audience, right?

Is that discovery.

Right.

Unless we introduce these new creatures, right?

Unless we go, all right, well, it's an eyeball with tentacles and how does it reproduce and what does it eat?

And I don't like that, you know?

No, it's really interesting.

You know, the writer's room,

You know, I have a kind of love-hate relationship with the writer's room.

I had to figure out how to use it for myself.

And what I figured out about it is it's a really good way to help me think out loud, you know?

So I don't tend to let the room...

tell the story, I tend to go in there and I go, here's where we are.

And then if I can't be in the room tomorrow, I'll say, all right, well, you know, it's like, let's say assimilation is a big theme in this story.