I think I want to get the hair folks to take all the color out of it so it looks like a dead caterpillar on my upper lip.” And I said, “Okay, sounds good.”There’s nothing different about telling a crime story or anything like that. Help me out here, I’m missing something here.Tell us about the journey from when you conceived the idea and cracked it, to getting it on the air.What I was looking for is the ability to tell a story, to paint a picture in my head, the reader’s head with words. And what really excited me was starting off with a guy, he’s going to start as one thing, the good guy, and he’s going to turn into the bad guy. He’s playing a scene with Brian Cranston. And I chased that at the beginning of my career.
It was great, a great experience.But anyway, it was a Friday night, we had put in a long day. I had all this great good luck at the beginning of my career, and I’ve kind of pissed it away. At a certain point, we would sort of delegate all these things and have the young folks in the office kind of figure out the puzzles. I lost my insurance, my writer’s guild insurance because I wasn’t getting much work done in the latter half of that five years.
And that was a very fun show to do. Because all you tell me is you’re just eating Cheetos and masturbating all day. But that gave myself, the DP, the actors, everybody the confidence to go, “Oh okay, great. That was a line in Repo Man, I think. I’d rather be on the set, but it was utterly disposable compared to being in the writers’ room and presiding verbally. No.” I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had that pitching a movie around town, or a t.v. But we don’t do them that often. We had our production offices in Albuquerque. And you talk about, as a director, how you see each scene, making sure that we’re all on the same page, and making sure that we understand what the intention, what the arc of the characters are, what the arc of the scene is, making sure that when we go to camera, because we have so little time to shoot it, all the discussions and everything that sometimes happen on set which you don’t have time to have, happen ahead of time. I was excited about the story. I mean, how Walter White is, in the case of this episode we’re discussing, Walter White is up against the smartest character in the entire Breaking Bad universe, the entire Breaking Bad, Walter White is not the smartest guy. So I learned really early on, ask for everything you could possibly imagine, because they’re going to take stuff away, but if you don’t ask on that first day, they’re not going to add stuff afterwards. Funniest line in season two was written by one of our second AC, their camera assistant, yeah. But I guess we always do that.And I remembered a poem I loved in high school, When I Heard The Learn’d Astronomer. Am I on the right track here?Well, as a producer on the show, it would come to my attention actually, in a outline form. I just loved it. Or do-Missed opportunity? We have gone down a rabbit hole, here. They’re not going to say, “Ah, well, this is this guy,” or “this woman, or whatever directed an Oscar winning movie and this and that.” That’s all great. List of Breaking Bad episodes " 4 Days Out " is the ninth episode of the second season of the American television drama series Breaking Bad . Walt Whitman, Walter White, things like that. And just you’re leaning forward in your seat just electrified watching this guy audition. Lay out a world, and it’s exactly… I mean, when you said it, that’s what we’re seeking. But even then, a lot of times it feels like no good deed goes unpunished on Breaking Bad. Help me out here, I’m missing something here.That’s true. In running the-What was your greatest failure as both a writer and a show runner on Breaking Bad?And yeah, as far as the montages, we try to put as much detail into the script, but some of the favorite moments in any of these montages were not scripted. Somehow when you start getting paid for it, it’s not as much fun as it used to be. This is the hot thing. I was so excited that I didn’t… It was unusual. Specifically, what it was about that story, and I’ve read you quoted as seeing it as Mr. Chips becomes Scarface. I’d say, “I just want to start writing. So yes, for sure.
But no, they definitely wrote that episode.