The very design of ‘Breaking Bad’ was that it was a finite, close-ended series. Vince Gilligan Read Quote
I’m very glad people love ‘Breaking Bad,’ but the harder character to write is the good character that’s as interesting and as engaging as the bad guy. Vince Gilligan Read Quote
For many decades – and this was reinforced by the broadcast networks’ standards-and-practices department – bad guys on TV had to get their comeuppance, and good guys had to be brave and true and unconflicted. Those were the laws of the business. Vince Gilligan Read Quote
TV is designed to keep characters in place for years on end. The best example is ‘M*A*S*H:’ You have a three-year police action in Korea, and they stretched that out to eleven seasons. It was a great show, but when you think about it, a weird unreality overtakes a television series. You see the actors age, and yet the characters don’t. Vince Gilligan Read Quote
It’s amazing, the quality of good work that happened in the fifties when a series would have to turn out 30-some episodes a season – it’s amazing that ‘I Love Lucy’ was as good as it was! Vince Gilligan Read Quote
I was always the kid who wanted Christmas to not come, because I realized at a pretty early age that no matter what you got, there’s always a little bit of a letdown. It’s like, ‘Oh, gee, I wanted two ponies, not one.’ Vince Gilligan Read Quote
How do you find a better actor than Michael McKean? How do you find someone who’s just that good? They don’t grow on trees. Plus, he’s a pleasure to work with, pleasure to be around. Vince Gilligan Read Quote
Sometimes confidence can lead you to accept the first decent idea instead of to really strive to even discard that and go for the ultimate great idea. So in a weird way, I think confidence is overrated sometimes. Vince Gilligan Read Quote
