Pilot Scripts Quotes

#1. Oftentimes, you read these pilot scripts that come through for American work, and they don't sing to you. I've got to be honest, not many of them ignite the flame or give you that burning feeling of, 'Oh, God, I really want to be a part of this.'

Antony Starr

#2. Pilot scripts are particularly difficult to write because you have to introduce all the characters without it feeling like a series of introductions.

Tina Fey

#3. I got some pilot scripts and auditioned for a couple other ones, too. It was just a standard audition, where I kept going in to read and went up the ladder, in terms of people who you're performing for during those auditions. Each step of the way, I was happy with that level of audition.

Tim Kang

#4. Vladimir: I don't understand.
Estragon: Use your intelligence, can't you?
Vladimir uses his intelligence.
Vladimir: (finally) I remain in the dark.

Samuel Beckett

#5. I think I've been lucky, being my frequent appearances on Court TV have brought to me another level than just the actor guy.

Robert Downey Jr.

#6. Oh, I had an idea for a pilot of my own at the time, and then Carl sent me about eight scripts and simply I threw my idea out the window because the writing was just so good.

Dick Van Dyke

#7. Holy Mother we do believe,
That without sin Thou didst conceive;
May we now in Thee believing,
Also sin without conceiving.

A.P. Herbert

#8. My way of telling stories is kind of what I do naturally. It's no different from how I would talk to you if you were in my living room.

Henry Cho

#9. You read a million scripts during pilot season, and most of them are not very good, so the good ones really shine.

Caitlin Fitzgerald

#10. But then anytime you join in a mass movement you're going to find yourself standing alongside idiots. One reason people go to mass rallies is to become stupider and surer of themselves than they are when they're alone.

Tim Kreider

#11. There may have been great scripts, and perfect actors to fill the roles, but those pilot projects could be stopped at an earlier point. Now, damn near anything can get on the air, but who can get people to watch? There are a lot more choices, even if you get on the air.

Harry Lennix

#12. I've written a couple of scripts. Actually, a pilot. I'm not sure I'm allowed to say, but it's a comedy about three young men in New York City, one of whom may or may not be a romantic like me.

Andre Holland

#13. The reason why I don't have a hero is because heroes set a bar - whereas if we don't have one, our potential is unlimited.

Peter H. Reynolds

#14. I've sold scripts in the past, and also a TV pilot that didn't get made, to Fox. But yeah, I've been writing for a while.

Michael Jai White

#15. In the summer of 2010, I had decided to get into film and TV writing, so I wrote scripts for six different ideas I had developed, and the pilot for 'True Detective' was one of them.

Nic Pizzolatto

#16. You get what you work for, not what you think you deserve.

Matshona Dhliwayo