I didn't get my first pilot that I screen-tested for, and I really thought it was the end of the world. But it's fine, you know, you move on to something else.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
Like, to do a pilot, you don't know what's going to happen with it.
It is cool to make a pilot because you get to do all the fun stuff, and then you get to leave when all the tough stuff starts.
I'll admit I wanted to be a pilot, originally.
If you go to pilot then you are probably going to go to series. That's my feeling about it.
If you want to grow old as a pilot, you've got to know when to push it, and when to back off.
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.'
One of my great joys in life is being a pilot. There is a great sense of freedom in soaring through the sky. You get a different perspective up there. Seeing things that aren't so apparent from the ground.
Every pilot I've ever written, I've fallen deeply and madly in love with. It's the only way I work.
It was understood that when I left to do the pilot that I wasn't coming back.