Michelle MacLaren Quotations

I seem to gravitate toward the dark side of things when it comes to directing. I love action, but I love the drama as well.

In general, we like to shoot Breaking Bad like a modern day Western, and Sergio Leone is one of my all-time favorite directors.

In 'Breaking Bad,' we have a lead character who definitely finds himself in a situation he would never have expected to find himself in normally.

Graphic novels are such a visually creative world - it's really interesting what they can do in one sketch. Now I'm hooked.

Every character a writer creates has some of themselves in it somewhere.

Sometimes I forget to say 'cut' because I am so lost in the performance.

After I directed for the first time, I wanted to call every director I'd ever worked with and apologize. In television you are tasked with shooting 42 minutes, or whatever, in eight days. That's not a lot of time.

The type of producing that I did for many years involved working very closely with directors.

I did every odd job you could possibly imagine: Holding a sign in the rain for 14 hours straight, sweeping up cigarette butts, pouring coffee, running around - anything I could to be on a film set. I wanted to be in the business. So I'd say, 'You need that job done? Fine,' and I became indispensable to people.

I'm not surprised that I tend to go for the dark side. I was a really scared kid, so I think I understand what scares people.