“Having certain limits - not too many, but certain limits on an ability to tell a story - makes us work harder, me and my writers. Sometimes I watch a giant movie with a $250 million budget and I think they feel kind of bloated, and that if they'd been leaner and meaner they might've had better storytelling.” IfsThinkingFeelsKindSometimesStoriesMightCertainAbilityWatchesMillionsHard WorkLimitsHarderStorytellingBudgetsGiantsWork Harder Author:Vince Gilligan
“It's like that old expression: "Men plan and god laughs." You sort of see that in the television world, where you have an idea where things are heading and you have a plan and sort of start off in that general direction, but you wind up taking all these side paths and whatnot - if you're lucky.” IfsMenWorldIdeasSidesLaughingPathPlansTelevisionExpressionWindLuckyHeadings Author:Vince Gilligan
“If you’re too rigid in your thinking you may miss some wonderful opportunities for storytelling.” IfsThinkingMayOpportunityWonderfulMissingStorytelling Author:Vince Gilligan
“If religion is a reaction of man, and nothing more, it seems to me that it represents a human desire for wrongdoers to be punished. I hate the idea of Idi Amin living in Saudi Arabia for the last 25 years of his life. That galls me to no end. I feel some sort of need for biblical atonement, or justice, or something. I like to believe there is some comeuppance, that karma kicks in at some point, even if it takes years or decades to happen. My girlfriend says this great thing that’s become my philosophy as well. 'I want to believe there's a heaven. But I can't not believe there's a hell.'” IfsMenWantNeedsFeelsYearsBelieveHumansWellsI CanIdeasEndsPhilosophySeemsHappensLastsDesireHateHeavenJusticeHellI HateDecadesKarmaReactionsGreat ThingsGirlfriendKicksBiblicalAtonementMy GirlfriendArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisComeuppance Author:Vince Gilligan
