“I knew Vince wanted to go from Mr Chips to Scarface,” he says. “I knew he wanted to go from a good person to a bad person. So it was up to me to figure out, through his writing, how to make it feel plausible and justifiable.
Some people are saying recently, about some of the things he’s done: that’s not Walt. I say: it is now. He’s a very pragmatic man, very scholarly, very exact. Chemistry is an exact science. No guesswork. But now because his emotions are gone, he’s doing things that are a little erratic. He’s impulsive at times.” [x]