Myself Quote by Curt Smith

Writing pilots is such a specific thing. It's not even really writing TV shows. A pilot is its own beast.

— June Diane Raphael

I've written pilots. I wrote a movie.

— Krysten Ritter

Having done television for almost 20 years now, a pilot is kind of like a rough draft. It's like bringing people into your ultrasound…

— Matt Bomer

I'm a commercial pilot before I was an actor.

— Mukul Dev

You hope for that with anything, but with a TV show, the writer and the actor being the right mix are more important than…

— Jake Kasdan

When you're doing a pilot, you're doing it in this bubble that almost works against the creative impulse. You don't have time to get…

— Josh Gad

When you're writing a pilot, unless you already have an actor attached to the project, you're writing it with all the voices sort of…

— Nahnatchka Khan

When you make a pilot, you've never seen the show before; you don't know what it is.

— Jonathan Krisel

Working in television, many times you read a script, you work on the pilot, and then you play the waiting game to see if…

— Mena Suvari

A pilot is like the most extensive dress rehearsal you can ever imagine, because the writers are learning about the actors, the actors are…

— Kim Cattrall

The pilot is a sales tool; it introduces you to the characters and might set the template for what the show is meant to…

— Michael Spiller

TV writing - for me, at least - is half original voice and half an embodiment and a representation of the spirit of the…

— Julie Plec