Top 37 Vince Gilligan Quotes

#1. You don't make a movie by yourself; you certainly don't make a TV show by yourself. You invest people in their work. You make people feel comfortable in their jobs; you keep people talking.

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#2. TV is where writers get to tell interesting stories. Because writers, for the most part, run television.

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#3. In all honesty, I've written movies that have been made, and the process has not been as satisfying as writing for television.

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#4. The older I get, the more nervous and anxiety-ridden I get. I don't know how to fix that.

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#5. People want what they want, for as long as they want it, then tastes change and something else works.

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#6. I think that for me, as far as audience expectations and how you manage your anxiety, it helps to keep things in perspective.

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#7. When you're talking about people like Shonda Rhimes, Vince Gilligan or Beau Willimon, you're talking to people who are notable and celebrities in their own right. People want to know how their brains work.

Jim Rash

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#8. I'm from a big family; I have four younger siblings. My parents are still happily married together. I grew up moving around a lot, and my family was certainly not affluent.

Alice Greczyn

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#9. My years on 'SNL' had reconfirmed that what I do best is play for a sort of edgy comedy.

Paul Shaffer

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#10. I've imparted that philosophy to the writers, but some of them look stuff up while some don't. Same with the editors, directors and actors. To each their own.

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#11. 'SpongeBob SquarePants' is a great show, and it centers on a character that is courageously nice. Why is SpongeBob interesting? It's because he has passion. He has a passion for chasing jellyfish.

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#12. If you look closely at 'Breaking Bad' and any given episode of 'The X Files,' you will realise the structure is exactly the same.

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#13. willingness to try a lot of things and make many mistakes.

Brad Stone

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#14. One reason I relate to 'Veronica Mars' fans is because I can totally geek out about shows. I mean, I write Vince Gilligan fan mail every year.

Rob Thomas

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#15. The world is a never-ending cross-reference.

Cees Nooteboom

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#16. I wanna keep being productive and creative.

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#17. Endings are the hardest part. I find there's a great relief that at the end of every episode, every hour of TV you produce, while you want a proper and satisfying ending, it doesn't have to end The Story, in capital letters.

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#18. If you're too rigid in your thinking you may miss some wonderful opportunities for storytelling.

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#19. Let the audience put 2 and 2 together so that it comes up with 4. Let them do that themselves, and they'll love you forever.

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#20. The thing about Proust is his combination of the utmost sensibility with the utmost tenacity. He searches out these butterfly shades to the last grain. He is as tough as catgut and as evanescent as a butterfly's bloom.

Virginia Woolf

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#21. The thing that intrigued me about 'Breaking Bad' from day one was the idea of taking a character and transforming him.

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#22. I don't like theatrical actors and actresses. I like people that talk like real human beings.

Woody Allen

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#23. I'm not a big internet guy - not because I'm not interested in what people have to say, but probably because I'm too interested.

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#24. I stay away from the internet as much as I can. Except for pornography.

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#25. Vince Gilligan and AMC are really wonderful people to direct and produce for because they don't put the demands of any conventionalism on you.

Michelle MacLaren

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#26. It's like that old expression: "Men plan and god laughs." You sort of see that in the television world, where you have an idea where things are heading and you have a plan and sort of start off in that general direction, but you wind up taking all these side paths and whatnot - if you're lucky.

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#27. It's weird how with a TV show, you don't have just the one ending - you have the many.

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#28. War could bond men like a magnet, but like a magnet it could repel them, too. The things they saw, the things they did. Sometimes they just wanted to forget.

Mitch Albom

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#29. I love cable, but not because you can show boobies and say the F-word. I love it because you have more time to think. That's the blessing of it.

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#30. There are two ways of knowing if something ends badly: If you're honest with yourself, you just kind of know it. And then there's other people's reaction to it.

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#31. There's nothing more powerful to a showrunner than a truly invested writer.

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#32. [Making meth] is a complex process. The truth of it is that we live in a post-Google world where you can find six recipes for meth in 30 seconds on a search engine.

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#33. There is a terrific apprehension among some people that blacks will take over the sport ... It will create problems because their behavior, speech and dress is just a completely different culture.

Arthur Ashe

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#34. It's often the case with successful TV shows that they kind of inadvertently live on past their prime. It's best to leave the audience wanting more.

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#35. What's so great about making television is that it's a collaborative beast. It's created by a great many hands belonging to a great many people.

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#36. The last thing in the world that I would want to know, in my own life, is when I'm going to pass away.

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#37. Parents, whether or not we believe in a deity, know that to witness a child's mind searching for meaning is a miracle.

Margaret Kennedy

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