Apr 21 TIL Vince Gilligan described his pitch meeting with HBO for ‘Breaking Bad’ as the worst meeting he ever had. The exec he pitched to could not have been less interested, “Not even in my story, but about whether I actually lived or died.” In the weeks after, HBO wouldn’t even give him a courtesy ‘no’.
Apr 21 I walked past a group of boys so young their voices haven’t broken, talking about how their classmates were “bops” and “ran through”
