Pilots Quotes

I didn't turn with the enemy pilots as a rule. I might make one turn to see what the situation was but not often. It was too risky.

I believe really deeply in the pilot process because you learn things about tone and casting.

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.

Josh Gad and I have been friends since the time he auditioned for Modern Family. I directed the pilot for that, and that's how we met.

I've done a lot of pilots, and they're all so expositional. In the beginning, I think that it is important to make sure that the audience is invested in us.

I love The Golden Girls. I've watched recently, and it's sort of insane there's a chef that they're always referring to as "fancy" - the pilot's kind of a mess.

Writing pilots is such a specific thing. It's not even really writing TV shows. A pilot is its own beast.

I did a pilot for Anything But Love in 1988 that didn't sell.

I'll admit I wanted to be a pilot, originally.

I've met a lot of the astronauts, which was such an incredible experience. They're all very macho guys, like fighter pilots, but then there's a mysticism about them.

The original plan was that James Wan would direct the pilot [of MacGyver ] but it didn't work out, and then it did, which is great. I'm a huge fan.

I've been asked to direct pilots for a lot of shows.

We went down for pilot season, I got Full House, and we wound up never leaving.

The pilot system in television is utterly broken. It's a huge waste of money.

I just personally decided I was going to be the first woman fighter pilot.

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.

God may be the captain pilot of the universe, but it appears that the Devil is his co-pilot!

If drink sales are falling off, we get the pilots to engineer a bit of turbulence. That usually spikes sales.

The second episode of any new show can be tough. You have about a week to top the well-crafted and polished pilot episode that was written over six months.

I work really, really hard and it's challenging going through all of those time zones and having to be awake when you're supposed to be asleep. I literally fly more than a pilot.

The flame of family can warm us and at the same time be a perpetual pilot light to rekindle us.

Of course, individuals are responsible for individual actions - the pilots who flew over Pearl Harbor and dropped bombs on those ships did a terrible thing as part of an attack on a military base.

One of the things I noticed about the '2 Broke Girls' pilot was that it looked like a new episode in a season and not a pilot, and that's an amazing sign.

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 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.

The successful golfers - they're like astronauts or pilots. They have that demeanor that they can focus and stay within that one moment and nothing distracts them. That's not me.

As an Asian American at pilot season you take whatever there is.

I've always said that it's like being the winner of three separate lottery tickets - getting a pilot, getting the pilot picked up, and having a show that actually lasts.

God was my co-pilot, but we crashed in the mountains and I had to eat Him. Explain.

There are a huge amount of people who sell a TV pilot, every year, but most of them never get produced. It's very easy to make a living and never get anything produced.

I've always been intrigued by fighter pilots and strategy because it occurs in like, milliseconds, you know.

I created 'Dinner: Impossible' with a guy named Bryan O'Reilly and I shot the pilot as a 30 minute show and we sold it.

It's a terrible process, what you go through, during pilot season. All the shows turn themselves in and there is a good four to six weeks before you get phone call.

I get inspired when I look at Tom Lennon, who did Reno 911! for six seasons while writing huge movies and directing, and also doing other pilots; he did that FX pilot, the Star Trek thing.

As we do at such times I turned on my automatic pilot and went through the motions of normalcy on the outside, so that I could concentrate all my powers on surviving the near-mortal wound inside.

Once you have established Your inner contact With your inner Pilot, Your life's transformation-victory Will not remain a far cry.

My grandfather was an engineer who invented the automatic pilot for airplanes.

Oh, pilot! 'tis a fearful night, There's danger on the deep.

He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safer for children to grow up in.

This pilot, by far, was the best I ever read - and I hope that insults every other pilot I worked on.

My will enkindled by mine eyes and ears, Two traded pilots 'twixt the dangerous shores Of will and judgment.

I want to be some kind of a pilot. And the other thing that I really like is psychology.

Blurryface is a fictional character and a reference to insecurities, which I think all people have.

Owning a drone does not a pilot make.

Tom's Navy SEAL team nicknamed him 'Tailspin', especially after sustaining his knee injury, but Joe likes to call him his 'Lucky Charm' -- saved his tail too many times to count.