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From an actor's point of view, you never really like to hope that anything will go beyond the pilot. I'd always say to my agent every time I filmed a pilot, 'Great! Well, I'll see you at pilot season.'

— Owain Yeoman

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Every pilot thinks they're the best pilot in the world. I think I'm the best pilot.

— Gordon Bethune

Usually pilot season is very busy, and there are lots of auditions and lots of near misses and rejections. This year, I had two auditions, landed this role and it felt like being home again.

— Melinda Clarke

As actors, if you get a pilot on HBO or on USA, your odds are good that it's going to get picked up.

— Tim DeKay

The pilot is a sales tool; it introduces you to the characters and might set the template for what the show is meant to be, but there's so many boxes you have to check off on a pilot that it can sort of hurt the storytelling in a way.

— Michael Spiller

For the last four or five years, I had been in the position where I didn't have to take a pilot. I took this one because the script and the people were terrific. It never frightened me. As we were doing the pilot, I could tell that it was working.

— Gerald McRaney

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.

— John Slattery

When you're making a pilot, what you're mostly thinking is, 'Please let this be a real job, please.'

— Hamish Linklater

✗Opposing Perspectives

The reason I've never gone for pilot season even as a younger actor, and wouldn't entertain that sort of thing now, is the idea of signing a piece of paper that binds me for six or seven years.

— Martin Freeman

A pilot is like the most extensive dress rehearsal you can ever imagine, because the writers are learning about the actors, the actors are learning about the characters.

— Kim Cattrall

You hope for that with anything, but with a TV show, the writer and the actor being the right mix are more important than the actual writing of the pilot because you hope it's something that can have a long life.

— Jake Kasdan