Authentic Quote by Jay Ellis

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

When you sign up for a TV show, you don't know if it's going to be for a pilot or for the rest of…

— Gabrielle Anwar

Despite the fact that I haven't watched a lot of serials, I always wanted to work in them.

— Sara Khan

I don't think a show's ever changed networks in the middle of the season before, but it was cool because they gave us those…

— Donal Logue

I found myself in network always trying to play catch up because once things get going there's no time to fix this and that.…

— Dennis Quaid

You get more out of doing a web series than a pilot, in some ways, especially when we were interviewing for writers. They had…

— Jillian Bell

Every first episode of a season has been crafted like another pilot.

— Anna Torv

As I slowly managed to take what I had learned into a transition from contestant to announcer and warm-up, I first had to prove…

— Randy West

There's a lot of progress happening in TV. You have amazing shows like 'How to Get Away With Murder.' You have people like Shonda…

— Jurnee Smollett-Bell

A lot of people don't know, I had the 'Angie Tribeca' show before I had 'Black-ish.' I went over to 'Black-ish' just to write.…

— Deon Cole

I've read many great samples, both of existing shows I liked and original pilots, and definitely hired the writers - or, at least, tried…

— Nahnatchka Khan

Shows like 'Empire,' 'Black-ish,' 'Scandal,' and 'How to Get Away With Murder' are expanding viewers' perspectives on what people of color can be like.…

— Baron Vaughn