Betsy Brandt Quotes

Even though 'Glee' is sometimes a hard road, I am very excited about writing a multi-year arc.

I honestly feel like we never had a bad episode by TV standards. Every week I felt there were so many strong components of the show, especially the writing.

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.

Honestly, the life of a serial character on television, I'd love to write an essay about it.

If you go to pilot then you are probably going to go to series. That's my feeling about it.

They baffle me where they go with the storylines... we used to be a Golden Globe winning show.

I did a pilot for Anything But Love in 1988 that didn't sell.

I feel like every first episode of a TV show is bad, you know, and it always improves.

I'd read a lot of scripts, and I remember reading 'Orange Is the New Black,' and it was at the head of the pack. I remember thinking, 'Wow, that is really good. I would love to be a part of that.'

When I read both pilots for 'Breaking Bad' and the 'Michael J. Fox Show,' I turned to my husband in real life, and I'm like, 'That is an amazing script.'

I started writing prose before I started writing television. Then 'Breaking Bad' came around, and to me, writing 'Breaking Bad' is like writing a novel each season. So it's been very creatively satisfying writing for the show.

One of the things I noticed about the '2 Broke Girls' pilot was that it looked like a new episode in a season and not a pilot, and that's an amazing sign.

First episodes are difficult things to write.

'Ray Donovan' is such a revelation to everybody who's working on it, and it's only getting better.

That first episode of 'Newsroom,' the way it just cooked, I thought it was really good.

The great thing about 'Breaking Bad' was they were able to write themselves out of anything.

Sometimes, I have themes that interest me or that touch on larger issues but, really, I'm just trying to figure out the plot, or how the characters work. I'm trying to make the best story I possibly can.

A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical in their approach to their fiction. A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best.

I did an episode on the TV show 'Awake,' and I thought, 'Wow, that's really hard.' To do that so fast and to do that, if it's very successful, for nine months out of the year, for a bunch of good years, that's challenging. But, it was interesting. It's a good show. You'd have to have a very good character, I guess.

When I first read the script a few years ago I thought it was one of the best written scripts I had ever read.

Writing a TV show is totally different than writing features, or just, what I started doing is writing features. You write a little bit more organically. You start from the beginning to the end, beginning, middle and end.

Personally, I've made myself a very small window of what I enjoy in this business, which is I love being a big part of the storytelling process.

My feeling is, from when I started on 'Breaking Bad,' there's no reason to pick and choose because every episode is great. Whatever episode you get, you're lucky to do it.

When I wrote for TV, I was always thinking in terms of character and story. After fifteen years, it became hard-wired in me.

That's why, when Alias came along, I knew I'd be OK if the show was on for five or six years because the writing was so good and the creative team was so strong.