Top 40 Fargo Quotes

I’ve always been really attracted to playing with structure. To take the story of ‘Fargo’ and break it up in such a way that’s it’s not linear, per se.

I always feel like you can take a genre that has a familiar structure to it and then reinvent it as a character piece. Suddenly, what’s old is new again. With ‘Fargo,’ I adapted a movie without any of the characters or the story. Yet somehow it feels like ‘Fargo.’

Investigating some of the largest subprime lenders – Wells Fargo, Countrywide, Ameriquest, Household Finance – I’ve seen how their terrible, toxic loans were closed by any means necessary and eventually packaged, sold as securities, and bet upon until they exploded and decimated our economy.

I grew up with my parents screaming and yelling at each other for the rent in Bronx, New York City at the time. It was $36. So my mind hadn’t stretched out to that place where I could spend a whole month’s rent on a 45-minute plane flight to Fargo, N.D.

They made a mistake. And it was an easy mistake to make. I don’t regard setting incentives aggressively as a mistake. I think the mistake was, when the bad news came, they didn’t recognize it directly. I don’t think that impairs the future of Wells Fargo. They’ll be better for it.

I grew up in Minnesota and everyone is so nice there. It is like Fargo. Everyone’s so chipper and you make friends just grocery shopping. We kill each other with kindness.

‘Fargo’ is a tragedy with a happy ending. So you need to have that tragic underpinning, that all of this could be avoidable, and that’s what makes it tragic. It’s about the use of violence, and the fact that the tension in anticipation of violence and the tension in anticipation of a laugh are sort of the same.

A number of former Wells Fargo employees have described their work environment characterized by intense pressure to meet aggressive and unrealistic sales goals. In a 2010 letter to shareholders, Mr. Stumpf wrote that Wells Fargo’s goal was eight products per customer because eight rhymed with great.

The most telling thing about ‘Fargo,’ both the now-classic movie and the television series, is that it doesn’t take place in Fargo.

‘Fargo’ becomes a metaphor for a type of true crime case where truth is stranger than fiction. So, there’s no reason that there isn’t another 10-hour true crime story that could be told in this region.

I started getting Twitter followers after I started doing press for ‘Fargo.’ One of my best friends from college is a librarian, and she started tracking after each interview how many Twitter followers I got. She and her librarian friends were like, ‘We’re going to make a graph.’ And I was like, ‘Alright, nerds.’

Making ‘Fargo’ for FX has been the highlight of my career. A writer can search his or her whole career for a network partner who truly understands and encourages their vision. For me, the search is over.

I wanted to do ‘Fargo’ rather than do a TV production. I’ve been offered TV things over the years, but usually, that’s about that I don’t want to be away from home for that long because it’s a long time to be away your home country and my family.

‘Fargo,’ man, with so many actors playing so many great characters, and then they do another season, and it changes all over again? It’s wild.

The first dumb idea was to do it at all – to take ‘Fargo,’ this beloved classic, and turn it into a television show. The second dumb idea, when you do it and it works, was to throw everything out and start again.

I don’t think they should trust anything that happens in ‘Fargo’ at all, and I’m sure ‘Fargo’ fans know not to make the mistake of trusting too much.

The first conversations I had for ‘Legion’ were right as the first year of ‘Fargo’ was ending. ‘Daredevil’ hadn’t even begun then, so when signing on, I had no real sense of the onslaught that was coming.

One of my favorite movies of all time is ‘Fargo.’

I remember watching ‘Fargo.’ I thought that was cruel. ‘GoodFellas,’ lots of Scorsese stuff, I think is unnecessarily violent and almost a celebration of violence. I don’t see ‘Game of Thrones’ as being a celebratory violence.

If, when I leave this earth, I’m remembered for ‘Fargo,’ so be it. But I think old Marge Gunderson is gonna get a run for her money with Olive Kittredge.

The ‘Fargo’ characters, they’re the characters of my people. They’re stoic, hardworking, uncomplaining, and I loved them.

The idea was always going to be that each year is a stand-alone story, which did make it easier on some level. It also requires the network to have the creative imagination to say, ‘This is also ‘Fargo,’ you know what I mean?

In a traditional TV show or movie, your hero is always where the action is. But in real life, at the end of the movie ‘Fargo,’ when Bill Macy is arrested, Marge is nowhere to be found because it’s a different jurisdiction, and she wouldn’t be there. I took that to heart.

Playing football in Fargo has a total big-time feel. Everyone says it’s FCS and it’s a smaller school, but in Fargo, North Dakota, and in the state of North Dakota, NDSU football is the real deal.

I taped my original audition for ‘Fargo’ with my agency in Chicago, Stewart Talent.

When Fargo came out, I hired a publicist for the first time in my life. I thought, if ever I was going to make it, that was then.

If ‘Fargo’ is about anything, it’s American madness.

It was really fascinating for everyone involved in ‘Fargo’ that Marge Gunderson became the iconic character she did. I think it was something about the cultural zeitgeist and what was happening with women in the workplace.

I was a huge fan of ‘Fargo.’ I binge-watched the first two seasons in a couple of weeks. I loved that series.

At least three times a week, I’m approached by someone who says something about ‘Fargo.’

I was involved with Wells Fargo Bank as a consultant in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when I suggested to them that they develop a product that has become known as index funds.

Credit card companies and banks usually aren’t shy when they’re trying to sell you something. Heck, Wells Fargo didn’t even bother to ask consumers before signing them up for as many as two million checking and credit card accounts.

There is the moral spectrum in ‘Fargo,’ and you see it in other Coen brothers movies, where you have a very good character on one end and a very bad character on the other.

I drove around New York when we did the upfronts and when we premiered ‘Fargo,’ and they crocheted a sweater for a double-decker bus and drove it around.

My dad was good friends with the Bad Medicine Blues Band – one of the only blues bands in Fargo, as you can imagine! He took me out to see them play when I was 12 years old and I was really inspired by their guitar player, Ted Larsen.

I’ve always felt there was something wrong with Wells Fargo’s culture, for a very, very long time.

The constant drip drop of fraudulent activities coming out of Wells Fargo is absolutely outrageous.

Wells Fargo had a glitch – the truth of the matter is they made a business judgement that was wrong. I don’t think anything is fundamentally wrong.

The great thing about ‘Fargo’ is that it’s a more objective style of filmmaking: the camera moves in very classical ways, and the most interesting things normally are the characters.

I often do that with characters, going back to my bloody drama-school days, in terms of equating them with creatures. And it’s very much there as a theme of all the seasons of ‘Fargo’ as well: the predator and the prey.