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    'Breaking Bad' Creator Vince Gilligan

    'Breaking Bad' Creator Vince Gilligan says to be a show-runner you need to be a cult leader and that the idea that there's a rivalry between his show and 'Mad Men' is false.

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    By Kim Masters • Aug 20, 2012 • 28m Listen

    Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan on the need to be a cult leader to be a good show-runner and the fallacy that there's a rivalry between his show and Mad Men. Plus, his acknowledgement that it's time to end Breaking Bad even though he doesn't want to and fears it'll end up being the most creative project he'll ever do in his career.

    Banner image: Bryan Cranston and Vince Gilligan on the set of Breaking Bad. Photo courtesy of Gregory Peters/AMC

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      Kim Masters

      partner/writer at Puck News, host of KCRW's “The Business.”

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