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… — Vince Gilligan Copy Share Image
Television is a great job for a writer in the way that movies used to be, way before my time. Back when writers in Hollywood were on staff or under contract at any given studio and you'd write movie scripts… — Vince Gilligan Copy Share Image
There are two ways of knowing if something ends badly: If you're honest with yourself, you just kind of know it. And then there's… — Vince Gilligan Copy Share Image
I do see the world in pretty dark terms. I find it colder and scarier the older I get. — Vince Gilligan Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you're creating something, it takes on a life of its own, and you can be surprised at how sad or dramatic it… — Vince Gilligan Copy Share Image
If religion is a reaction of man, and nothing more, it seems to me that it represents a human desire for wrongdoers to be… — Vince Gilligan Copy Share Image
There's nothing more powerful to a showrunner than a truly invested writer. — Vince Gilligan Copy Share Image
The thing that intrigued me about 'Breaking Bad' from day one was the idea of taking a character and transforming him. — Vince Gilligan Copy Share Image
Our rational, realistic goals for 'Better Call Saul' were simply that it wouldn't suck, and it wouldn't embarrass us. It didn't rise much higher… — Vince Gilligan Copy Share Image
'SpongeBob SquarePants' is a great show, and it centers on a character that is courageously nice. Why is SpongeBob interesting? It's because he has… — Vince Gilligan Copy Share Image
It's often the case with successful TV shows that they kind of inadvertently live on past their prime. It's best to leave the audience… — Vince Gilligan Copy Share Image
It's like that old expression: "Men plan and god laughs." You sort of see that in the television world, where you have an idea… — Vince Gilligan Copy Share Image
We all put on faces, as Walter White does. We put on faces when we meet our friends, when we meet new people, when… — Vince Gilligan Copy Share Image
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.… — Vince Gilligan Copy Share Image
