Quotes from Vince Gilligan

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.

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

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

How do you find a better actor than Michael McKean? How do you find someone who's just that good? They don't grow on trees. Plus, he's a pleasure to work with, pleasure to be around.

A typical TV show is always about protecting the franchise - it's all about stretching it out as long as you can take it. And it's about taking the characters in any given hour as far as you can take them, but then resetting them more or less back to zero so at the beginning of the next week, so they're still the character you know and love.

For many decades - and this was reinforced by the broadcast networks' standards-and-practices department - bad guys on TV had to get their comeuppance, and good guys had to be brave and true and unconflicted. Those were the laws of the business.

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.

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

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

I think one of the reasons for the success of 'Breaking Bad,' and now for 'Better Call Saul,' is that we have been blessed by AMC and Sony with enough time to figure things out.

I'm not big into spoilers. Just personally, I don't want anything spoiled.

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

We all put on faces, as Walter White does. We put on faces when we meet our friends, when we meet new people, when we present ourselves in interviews. We try to be who the people we meet want us to be, or who we want to truly be.

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