Able Quote by Mena Suvari

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

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

— June Diane Raphael

Increasingly, there's much better material on television, but there's not always the time and money to make it, so you've got to make sure…

— Cary Fukunaga

What I do know is how difficult it is in this industry to get a show on the air. There's so many different stages:…

— Daniel Dae Kim

Remember, a TV pilot is like an experiment. You try it out, and if it works, then they make it a series. So, the…

— Bear McCreary

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

Sometimes you can see a pilot, and then when the series starts, it's different people. That's always possible.

— Lamman Rucker

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

I worked in television; I'm the Failed Pilot Queen, I've done so many television shows, pilots, theater ... when you do it for so…

— Viola Davis

I'm extra harsh on pilot scripts, which is difficult because pilots, generally, are not that great. You have to imagine the whole series instead…

— Lizzy Caplan

Pilots get made, and they don't go to series. Stuff gets written and never gets made. I've tried to develop stuff that never went.…

— Jason Lee

There's always some pressure to achieve something. You make a pilot, but you don't know if you're going to get a show. And then,…

— Charles Halford