Vince Gilligan Quotes

Nothing, believe me, nothing is more satisfying to me personally than getting a great idea and then beatin' it to death.

Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it.

The fear of mistakes is the fast track to irrelevance.

I don't like to get comfortable. I don't like to be like, 'Oh, my song is all over the place. I'm lit.' Nah, it makes me wanna keep working.

The trouble with the average person is that he doesn't trust himself sufficiently to create and deliver ideas.

To create a new standard, you have to be up for that challenge and really enjoy it.

My company and people think I'm wacky when I have an idea... I know if I have an idea, no one will want to go through it. But if I persist, people will go through it.

I've already got notebooks full of ideas for new music, so I'm gonna kind of nurture that just like I do all of my ideas and perfect it until it's ready and then I'll just let it go.

Usually, the best ideas come from having to fix a really hard problem.

People put limitations on their creativity, believing they have to rely on what they know and what they have done.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

I have some ideas on how to fix that. They're not very good ideas, but at least they're ideas!

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away.

I still worry that I could be better. That's where standards come from, from not wanting to settle. The fear of not being good enough propels you.

I want every episode to feel like we still haven't done this right yet.

I have this belief that if you have an idea, and you have to write it down to remember it, then it can't be a great idea.

Confidence is highly overrated when it comes to creating literature. A writer who is overly confident will not engage in the struggle to get it exactly right on the page - but rather, will assume that she's getting it right without the struggle.

A lot of people get really stuck in this idea that everything's been done and there's nowhere left to go.

I'm kind of an idea guy.

My joking answer to this question is that I leave a bowl of milk out on the back porch every night for the Idea Fairy. In the morning, the milk is gone and there's a brand-new shiny idea by the bowl.

Worst ideas? Me? Whatever do you mean? There are no bad ideas.

Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.

I truly believed that other people in my position didn't make mistakes; I couldn't see that everybody makes them, even people with great experience.