Vince Gilligan on being influenced by The Andy Griffith Show

Vince Gilligan on an episode of The X-Files for which they had to reconstruct the entire house from the Brady Bunch set - they had to get permission from the show's creator, Sherwood Schwartz, to build the set

Vince Gilligan on not knowing how Breaking Bad will end; "I have hopes and dreams for these characters"

Vince Gilligan on the Breaking Bad episode "The Fly"

Vince Gilligan on the Breaking Bad episode "Negro Y Azul" in Season Two featuring "the Narcocorrido"

Vince Gilligan on the casting choices for Breaking Bad ; on knowing Bryan Cranston needed to play "Walter White"; on how his association playing the dad on Malcolm in the Middle role helped this character

Vince Gilligan on the moment he's proudest of on Breaking Bad, when "Walter White" turns down a no-strings offer for money, which is supposed to be the reason he's making sacrifices, making his character less sympathetic from early on in the series

Vince Gilligan on the character "Walter White" on Breaking Bad

Vince Gilligan on why he decided Breaking Bad 's leading character should deal methamphetamine - "Meth was the worst way I could think of for 'Walter White' to make money"; on how his unfamiliarity with the drug helped him write "Walter White's" character

Vince Gilligan on how Breaking Bad got its title and what it means

Vince Gilligan on how Breaking Bad was "deader than a hammer" until FX agreed to let AMC produce it

Vince Gilligan on pitching the idea of a middle-aged family man cooking a meth lab to cable networks

Vince Gilligan on the genesis of Breaking Bad

Vince Gilligan on an episode of Homicide: Life on the Street which influenced his X-Files script for the episode "Drive", guest-starring Bryan Cranston

Vince Gilligan on the premise of his X-Files spinoff series, The Lone Gunmen and how timing may have hurt it - "luck is timing and timing is everything"

Vince Gilligan on an episode of The Lone Gunme n which referenced the events of 9/11 six months before

Vince Gilligan on being influenced by The Twilight Zone and Rod Serling

Vince Gilligan on how Weeds went on air right before Breaking Bad , but if he had known about it he never would have pursued his show; on how dissimilar the shows are

Vince Gilligan on getting hooked on The X-Files in 1993 and getting an introduction to Chris Carter, who was related to Gilligan's agent

Vince Gilligan on writing The X-Files episode "Soft Light" and then being offered a job as a staff writer on the show, which he initially turned down

Vince Gilligan on The X-Files "The second greatest job of my life" that taught him everything he needed to know about writing for TV; on the mythology versus the stand-alone episodes

Vince Gilligan on the writers' room at The X-Files; on the first episode he wrote as a staff writer "Pusher"; on the writing process

Vince Gilligan on what he liked about the lack of rules on The X-Files for the writers

Vince Gilligan on "Folie Aux Deux" - an X-Files episode he wrote and how the visual element was incorporated into the show; on why the visual is as important as the dialogue

Vince Gilligan on the importance of the visual element on The X-Files and his input as a writer

Vince Gilligan on the only script he wrote for The X-Files that was re-written

Vince Gilligan on the censorship limits on The X-Files; on the episode "Pusher" about Russian Roulette; on the episode "Paper Hearts" where he couldn't show an entry wound

Vince Gilligan on the writers on The X-Files

Vince Gilligan on the conspiracy theories explored by writers on The X-Files; on the influences for the show

Vince Gilligan on whether the writers on The X-Files actually believed in supernatural phenomena: "I Want to Believe"

Vince Gilligan on The X-Files episode "Bad Blood" influenced by the film "Rashomon"

Vince Gilligan on how The X-Files writers' room would "break" the story by building a scene "brick by brick"; on the hardest part of writing for TV

Vince Gilligan on how much the writers on the The X-Files were aware of the early Internet forums and fan chat rooms

Vince Gilligan on The X-Files mythology episodes

Vince Gilligan on the balance between comedy and drama on The X-Files; on his reputation for writing the funnier episodes; on his episode "Small Potatoes"

Vince Gilligan on the first episode of The X-Files he directed "Je Souhaite" (I Wish) in Season 7

Vince Gilligan on directing The X-Files episode "Sunshine Days" in which the reconstructed The Brady Bunch house

Vince Gilligan on the The X-Files episode "Drive" where he met and worked with actor Bryan Cranston for the first time (later Cranston would star in Gilligan's Breaking Bad series playing a similar role, and why Cranston was perfect to play a "sympathetic creep")

Vince Gilligan on being nominated for an Emmy for The X-Files episode "Memento Mori"

Vince Gilligan on The X-Files episode "Memento Mori" in which "Scully" gets cancer

Vince Gilligan on how the writers adapted to news that David Duchovny was leaving X-Files

Vince Gilligan on the "jump the shark" episode of The X-Files and the resolution for The Lone Gunmen spinoff series

Vince Gilligan on the finale of The X-Files