Actor Quote by Jake Kasdan

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

— June Diane Raphael

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

At the end of the day, it's really, really difficult to make a brand-new show, to write a pilot where you have to introduce…

— Missy Peregrym

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

The most important decision you can make as a showrunner when you're doing a pilot is who's in it and who's directing it.

— Greg Berlanti

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

When you're writing for a TV show, what's great is that you always know what actor you're writing to.

— Michael Brandt

I don't know much about writing a show or being a show-runner on a show, but I can only imagine that when you first…

— Alison Brie

I think that comes with a collaboration with the writers. I think that we get cast in edgier roles because we are a little…

— Judy Greer

I just personally feel like the best writing for actors exists in cable television.

— Donal Logue

The reason I've never gone for pilot season even as a younger actor, and wouldn't entertain that sort of thing now, is the idea…

— Martin Freeman