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

For 'Breaking Bad,' it was like, that's one of the best pilots, probably the best pilot I have ever read.

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.

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 know that some people think differently about pilots, but I really enjoyed shooting 'Awakening'.

Well, it's difficult to fall in love with a character when you just read the pilot. You don't really know who the character is.

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.

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 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.