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I wrote six pilots, none of which ever got picked up. When you stop trying, it then it falls in your lap.

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.

I've been on pilots. I've seen shows come and go. I know that this stuff is all very fleeting, so I try to keep it cool.

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

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.

Yeah, I'd done a bunch of pilots. Some that had gone for a while. One that went for 13 episodes. But I had never been on a show that had lasted more than that.

Pilots are so hard because you have to introduce all these characters, you have to hook an audience, and an audience has such a smaller attention span than maybe they used to have.

I've done 10 or 11 pilots for network television, which is ridiculous.

It's a pity I flew only once. A space flight is like a drug - once you experience it, you can't think of anything else.

You read a million scripts during pilot season, and most of them are not very good, so the good ones really shine.