Quotes About Pilot

I started to book good television jobs in 2010. I started to get really close to exceptional jobs in 2011, and then I got 'Arrow' in 2012. I know how lucky I am because just getting the lead in a pilot doesn't guarantee that that pilot is going to turn into something great.

James Salter has been a fighter pilot, a rogue, and a climber. He counts Robert Redford as a friend.

It's so hard to make a comedy pilot and have a cool idea.

My first inclination was toward flying and being a pilot.

I have some eye problems from when I was a pilot.

'Dexter,' while the pilot shares moments with the novel that created the character of Dexter, they completely abandoned the book from that moment on.

The first season of a show is kind of like an extended pilot. You're only really on the map if it goes a second season.

The pilot of 'Seinfeld' was made and dropped. 'Seinfeld' was not supposed to go to series.

One of the best decisions we made on the 'Arrow' pilot was to have the Deathstroke mask. Within 30 seconds, you knew you were watching a DC comics show.

Dad endorsed my learning to fly so he would have a live-in pilot, one he could get in touch with at any time.

When a network passes, you really mourn the show. The official state of grief in Hollywood is saying you're taking around a dead pilot.

I've known numerous actors who got a pilot that they thought was going to run forever, and they went out and blew all of the money. Now they've got a mortgage they can't pay for.

I'm going to go do a Netflix series. It's straight-to-series, 10 episodes, probably go for three seasons. I'm going to direct the pilot and hopefully the last episode of the first season. The show is 'Seven Seconds.'

I've pitched many things that have not gone, but every year, I'm in that pilot game like a lot of other writers in Hollywood.

For me, I look at a pilot and go, 'I see the landscape. I see the characters. I see the direction and the potential of the story.' And I also go, 'That didn't work. I could change that. Maybe that works. I don't know. We'll see.' For me, I look at it, as an actor, as what can I improve upon?

I had CNN on in my hotel room every day while we were filming the pilot for 'The Originals.'

The most important decision you can make as a showrunner when you're doing a pilot is who's in it and who's directing it.

I still love a great pilot as much as I did the day I started at NBC.

Six months after I moved to L.A., I booked the ABC pilot 'Commander-in-Chief' with Geena Davis. I played her son.

Pilot season isn't perfect, and it certainly is a very difficult time. But pilot season does work for us.

I think my being a combat pilot, being a woman who has had to break down barriers and succeed in a male-dominated environment, and, I think, just being in the military for 26 years have all helped me.

One of my best friends was the first U.K. female fighter pilot.

I never dreamed to be a fighter pilot, because those guys are jerks.

When you're doing a pilot, you don't know where it will end up, and then you're being put up with the best of the best.