John Landgraf
John Landgraf
John Landgrafis the President and General Manager of FX Network, a position he has held since 2005. TV critic Alan Sepinwall jokingly refers to Landgraf as the Mayor of TV...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
CountryUnited States of America
thinking conflict
I don't think I ever had any relationship with any showrunner, over time, with whom I didn't have conflict.
character eye games
For me, personally, I'm more comfortable with what I would call third-person entertainment, meaning watching a character that's explicitly not me and experiencing something through a character's eyes, than what I would call first-person entertainment, which is a video game in which I am the character.
home thinking self
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.
drama thinking continuing-on
I think the possibility of continuing on a comedy is greater than a drama.
believe pilots casting
I believe really deeply in the pilot process because you learn things about tone and casting.
character fargo film
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.
numbers historical pieces
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.
thinking games ideas
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.
native-american character people
We also have a piece about the Mayflower, but it's just a very different, very gritty, very character-driven version of why those people were on that boat and what the experience was like for them, emotionally, physically and spiritually, and also the Native Americans and what the state of Native American society was at that time.
stories elements definitions
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.
competition insane amount
The amount of competition is just literally insane.
thinking people creative
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.
episodes series
I read every draft of every episode of every series produced at FX.
powerful thinking arrogance
It is the pure arrogance of the newly rich and the newly powerful to think content is easy.