I never thought anyone would come up to me and say, 'I like 'Better Call Saul' better than 'Breaking Bad.'' If you had asked me before we started, 'Would that bother you if someone said that?' First of all, I would have said, 'That's never gonna happen. And yeah, it probably would bother me.' It doesn't bother me a bit.… — Vince Gilligan Copy Share
A typical TV show is always about protecting the franchise - it's all about stretching it out as long as you can take it. And it's about taking the characters in any given hour as far as you can take them, but then resetting them more or less back to zero so at the beginning of the next week, so… — Vince Gilligan Copy Share
'Breaking Bad'... the beauty of it is, some people are always going to love 'Breaking Bad' more. But I run into people… — Vince Gilligan Copy Share Image
I'm very glad people love 'Breaking Bad,' but the harder character to write is the good character that's as interesting and as… — Vince Gilligan Copy Share Image
It's amazing, the quality of good work that happened in the fifties when a series would have to turn out 30-some episodes… — Vince Gilligan Copy Share Image
Theater is a wonderful medium - I love theater myself, and there are exceptions to every rule - but the thing that… — 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
