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When I did the pilot, Mort was very real to me. When I got through with the ten weeks, Maura is even more real to me.
Jeffrey Tambor
Me
Pilot
Ten
More
Through
Weeks
Got
Real
Very
Did
Even
There are a lot of things I might be good at, such as competitive figure skating, window washing from ten stories up, and being an open heart surgeon. I might also make an excellent Kamikaze pilot - except for the fact that I don't want to learn how to fly and have no interest in taking my own life on behalf of Japan.
Jen Kirkman
Life
Good
Heart
Surgeon
Pilot
Fly
Own
Window
No Interest
Ten
My Own
Fact
Excellent
Except
Open
Taking
Also
Make
Learn
How
Lot
Up
Behalf
Being
Want
Stories
Interest
Skating
Japan
Might
Figure
Figure Skating
Washing
Things
Competitive
Like, to do a pilot, you don't know what's going to happen with it.
Jenna Elfman
You
Pilot
Like
Know
Going
Happen
There were no surprises, because when you sell a pilot based on a pitch, no matter how great the script is, it's going to look different and feel different from what someone imagines in their head. There will always be varying degrees of disappointment or confusion.
Jennifer Konner
Great
You
Disappointment
Pilot
Matter
Confusion
Will
Degrees
Someone
Head
Feel
Look
Because
Always
How
Were
Surprises
Sell
Pitch
Going
Different
Script
Based
A lot of people think Formula One isn't a sport because everyone drives a car when they go to work in the morning. But we're pulling up to six G on a corner or during breaking, which is almost like being a fighter pilot. So we have to do a lot of work on our neck muscles.
Jenson Button
Work
Morning
People
Pilot
Car
Fighter
Think
Corner
Everyone
Our
Drives
Almost
Like
Sport
Because
Go
Lot
Up
Six
Being
Which
Breaking
Formula
Formula One
Fighter Pilot
Neck
Muscles
Pulling
My first book, about Ruby Ridge, was made into a miniseries on CBS in 1996, and since then, I've dabbled in Hollywood, pitched a few things, sold a couple of screenplays and a pilot that I wrote with a buddy from Spokane, flirted with seeing 'Citizen Vince' as a film, and most recently, adapted 'The Financial Lives of the Poets' as a script.
Jess Walter
Book
Financial
Pilot
Citizen
Made
First
Few
Ruby
Sold
Seeing
About
Poets
Buddy
Since
Most
Couple
Wrote
Few Things
Screenplays
Script
Hollywood
Then
Ridge
Film
Lives
Things
Recently
Adapted
Normally, you cast a pilot, and you have to make compromises about being political about who you cast.
Jill Soloway
You
Political
Pilot
About
Cast
Compromises
Make
Normally
Being
Who
'Dexter,' while the pilot shares moments with the novel that created the character of Dexter, they completely abandoned the book from that moment on.
Jim Rash
Character
Book
Pilot
Abandoned
Shares
Dexter
While
Created
Moment
Moments
Novel
What they did was to make a pilot and it may well go to series at the next festival but I don't have any news on that. It's already been on Paramount actually, but as it's on Paramount it'll probably be on several more times... hopefully.
Jo Brand
News
Pilot
Several
Hopefully
Paramount
More
Well
Make
Go
Been
Festival
Times
Did
Any
May
Next
Series
Actually
I got the pilot for 'Scrubs' sent to me, and in the margin for Dr. Cox, it said 'a John McGinley type.' So when I went in to audition, I said to Billy Lawrence, who's a dear friend of mine, I said, 'Well, I'm John McGinley.'
John C. McGinley
Me
Pilot
Type
Mine
John
Lawrence
Well
Said
Got
Dear
Audition
Dear Friend
Friend
Cox
Sent
Scrub
Billy
Dr
Margin
Brimstone was great. That was another occasion when they called me in to do the pilot and it turned into a regular job, which made me quite happy. It was another really good experience and we were all so surprised when they pulled the plug on it.
John Glover
Good
Great
Me
Happy
Experience
Pilot
Job
Made
Plug
Occasion
Another
Were
Surprised
Quite
Which
Turned
Really
Regular
Pulled
I had done one failed pilot. I remember, when it failed, I was like, 'Oh my God, how does someone survive this? That's it - that's the end of my career; it's over.'
John Krasinski
God
Remember
Pilot
Someone
Had
Remember When
Failed
Over
Like
Does
How
End
Survive
Done
Oh
Oh My God
Career
I believe really deeply in the pilot process because you learn things about tone and casting. Even some of our best shows have had substantial re-shoots and reworking before they've gone on the air.
John Landgraf
Best
You
Pilot
Before
Gone
Believe
Our
Air
Some
About
Casting
Had
Learn
Because
Substantial
Process
Really
Even
Shows
Deeply
Things
Tone
The '7500' is with Leslie Bibb. It's a big ensemble with a lot of really good people. I play the pilot of the 747 that something happens on as it crosses the Pacific. It's going to do what 'Jaws' did to the ocean. Not make people want to get on!
Johnathon Schaech
Good
People
Pilot
Good People
Big
Ocean
Ensemble
Crosses
Something
Make
Lot
Get
Did
Going
Want
Happens
Pacific
Really
Jaws
Leslie
Play
It's always interesting for me to watch the pilot of an established show because you see how the writers and actors weren't really sure what the show was and what the dynamics were. If you look at the pilot for 'Seinfeld,' for example, it's practically unrecognizable.
Johnny Galecki
Me
You
Pilot
Example
See
Seinfeld
Writers
For Example
Look
Practically
Sure
Because
Always
How
Were
Established
Dynamics
Interesting
Really
Show
Actor
Watch
When you make a pilot, you've never seen the show before; you don't know what it is.
Jonathan Krisel
You
Pilot
Seen
Before
Never
Know
Make
Show
For 'Orphan Black,' all I got was the pilot script, and that was enough for me. I was daydreaming about this part. I kept thinking about how certain scenes were going to play out and how these interactions were going to take place.
Jordan Gavaris
Me
Pilot
Black
Thinking
Enough
Out
About
Scenes
Take
Part
Daydreaming
Got
How
Were
Going
Interactions
Place
Script
Certain
Play
Orphan
Kept
JJ Abrams is definitely a guy that when he calls, you want to answer. He's incredibly focused. When he was shooting the pilot on 'Lost,' we'd do a take and he'd go back to his tent and be working on the first episodes of 'Lost' as well as the cliffhanger for the eighth season of 'Alias.' He's an incredible multitasker.
Jorge Garcia
You
Pilot
First
Lost
Incredible
Incredibly
Back
Definitely
Focused
Guy
Take
He
Tent
Well
Calls
Answer
Go
His
Shooting
Want
Eighth
Episodes
Working
Season
When you're doing a pilot, you're doing it in this bubble that almost works against the creative impulse. You don't have time to get to know the actors first, and you have three writers, as opposed to a room full of writers.
Josh Gad
Time
You
Creative
Pilot
Three
First
Writers
Bubble
Almost
Know
Doing
Opposed
Get
Impulse
Against
Room
Full
Works
Actor
Working in MTV's development team, my days would consist of pitches and deciding which concepts we wanted to buy. We would then develop those into a pilot. Very few ended up making it to a full series, but if they did, I would manage the project alongside the show's creators.
Julia Hartz
Buy
Pilot
Few
Project
Consist
Those
Would
Develop
Development
Days
Alongside
Concepts
Making
Up
Very
Did
Manage
Ended
Pitches
Wanted
Deciding
Which
Then
Working
Full
Show
Team
Series
Creators
I did a pilot for Anything But Love in 1988 that didn't sell.
Kathryn Bigelow
Love
Pilot
Sell
Did
Anything
I was fortunate enough to book a pilot, and we just got picked up for a midseason replacement for ABC. It's called 'Romantically Challenged,' and I'm going to be playing Alyssa Milano's little sister. The other actor in it is Kyle Bornheimer from 'Worst Week' - he's hilarious.
Kelly Stables
Book
Pilot
Hilarious
Sister
Other
Enough
Worst
ABC
Week
He
Picked
Got
Up
Replacement
Going
Just
Little
Fortunate
Actor
Challenged
Playing
I'll admit I wanted to be a pilot, originally.
Kent McCord
Pilot
Admit
Wanted
Originally
My first inclination was toward flying and being a pilot.
Kevin A. Ford
Pilot
First
Flying
Toward
Being
Inclination
The moment when you find out when you shoot the pilot - getting the pilot is a small victory. You shoot the pilot, and when you get picked up, that's a huge victory right there.
Kevin Dillon
You
Pilot
Victory
Out
Find
Small
Picked
Huge
Up
Get
Shoot
Getting
Moment
Right
Pilot season tends to be grueling, because you can be thrown all of these auditions at once - last-minute, always - and you're going on three a day, especially back in the day.
Kim Dickens
Day
You
Pilot
Three
Last-Minute
Back
Once
Tends
Thrown
Because
Always
Auditions
Going
Season
Grueling
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