Television Quotes by Vince Gilligan

If you look closely at 'Breaking Bad' and any given episode of 'The X Files,' you will realise the structure is exactly…

— Vince Gilligan

TV is where writers get to tell interesting stories. Because writers, for the most part, run television.

— Vince Gilligan

There's nothing more powerful to a showrunner than a truly invested writer.

— Vince Gilligan

In all honesty, I've written movies that have been made, and the process has not been as satisfying as writing for television.

— Vince Gilligan

It's often the case with successful TV shows that they kind of inadvertently live on past their prime. It's best to leave…

— Vince Gilligan

The thing that intrigued me about 'Breaking Bad' from day one was the idea of taking a character and transforming him.

— Vince Gilligan

I love cable, but not because you can show boobies and say the F-word. I love it because you have more time…

— Vince Gilligan

What's so great about making television is that it's a collaborative beast. It's created by a great many hands belonging to a…

— Vince Gilligan

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

Endings are the hardest part. I find there's a great relief that at the end of every episode, every hour of TV…

— Vince Gilligan

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

It's like that old expression: "Men plan and god laughs." You sort of see that in the television world, where you have…

— Vince Gilligan

I think one of the reasons for the success of 'Breaking Bad,' and now for 'Better Call Saul,' is that we have…

— Vince Gilligan

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…

— Vince Gilligan

A big part of the job of being a showrunner is, in my way of thinking, being a good communicator because there's…

— Vince Gilligan

Television is a great job for a writer in the way that movies used to be, way before my time. Back when…

— Vince Gilligan

I never thought anyone would come up to me and say, 'I like 'Better Call Saul' better than 'Breaking Bad.'' If you…

— Vince Gilligan

A typical TV show is always about protecting the franchise - it's all about stretching it out as long as you can…

— Vince Gilligan

'Breaking Bad'... the beauty of it is, some people are always going to love 'Breaking Bad' more. But I run into people…

— Vince Gilligan

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…

— Vince Gilligan

It's weird how with a TV show, you don't have just the one ending - you have the many.

— Vince Gilligan

The very design of 'Breaking Bad' was that it was a finite, close-ended series.

— Vince Gilligan