Vince Gilligan Quotes

I don't ever want to have a weak episode of television with my name on it.

If you're the star of a show, the next one has to be as good or better, and if you're doing a series, if anything goes wrong, it's your fault. There's nobody else to blame.

My house is not James Bondish at all. Sorry.

I don't work for production houses. I only work for good scripts and roles. If you follow my career graph, you will find that I have not given a single flop yet in my career. I am proud of it.

I never made a good movie.

It doesn't bother me one iota that most of my career has been playing people who are not that - well, let's say that people wouldn't aspire to be like them.

If you put a demo on the net and people say it was the finished version then they're going to say it sucks. I really hate that.

'Chronicle 2' has become this question of, 'How do we all make a movie that we all respect?' And that's true to what 'Chronicle' is. There's no one at the studio who wants to make a bad movie. They all want to make a good movie just as much as I do.

This is what Steve Jobs understood: Brands are defined not by the best thing on the product but by the worst thing.

I think a lot of the stuff I'm playing now is crap.

I am not too proud of having my name associated with some of my restaurants.

You're only as good as your last collection, which is an enormous pressure.

I was grateful to have two weeks to shoot this one scene in Harry Potter. It's a big, big scene, but they have to deliver. And they have high expectations.

My work is not great, but it's respectable.

I don't think any player lives up to his potential, because people out there put you so high on a pedestal, you'll never be as good as they expect.

I'm bringing what I've always wanted: film quality work on television. That's the way it should be.

All I've ever ended up with in terms of achievements is the movie, some really stupid anecdotes, a bunch of crosswords that I didn't finish and maybe some old bicycle that I found lying around on set.

I had many opportunities to get behind products in the past, and I was always careful to evaluate all of them. I will not put my name to shoddy items.

I just don't want to do crap movies, man, because I just love that I can get up and talk about them and talk to journalists about stuff that I'm really proud of.

I have enough motivation just not looking like an idiot on national television. The fear of disappointing people is certainly higher.

Some people will do schlock or anything, just to get their name on it.

I am so disappointed in Apple. I don't even use an iPhone anymore. Their marketing sucks. It's embarrassing. It's just garbage.

I don't work for money any longer. I'm fortunate enough not to need to work for money, but I work for pride; I work because I love to work, and so the idea that one could lose control of one's own name and that things could be produced with your name on that you were not proud of scared me.

The reality of the writer's world is that you set yourself up for disappointment with every success that you deliver because with every success you raise your readers' expectations.

Even if I tried to be my dad, it would be a mediocre, slightly embarrassing version.