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I did some commercials and a couple of B movies, then a few pilots that didn't go anywhere. Eventually I did the pilot for Beverly Hills, 90210. The rest is history.

I've actually done three pilots for Disney. I met with the network when I was 16 years old and had just started acting. I would fly to Los Angeles to film pilots, then fly back to Dallas, where I grew up.

I've done a lot of pilots. A lot of shows. You're young and you do a job just because you know someone gave you a job.

If I'm not on stage, I'm a pilot. I like flying planes; I have a little plane back in Nashville.

My first pilot gig, in fact my first job in television, was 'Freaks and Geeks,' and the experience of directing that pilot was probably the single most formative of my directing life.

I always wanted to be a pilot.

I did pilots here and there but mostly I was doing little bits in movies.

After the war, in which I served as a pilot in the Air Force, I took up films.

I'll admit I wanted to be a pilot, originally.

I never intended to become a professional pilot. But, as I became more curious about aircraft, and, well, not being John Travolta, I realized that the only way I was ever going to fly a jet is if I got a job.