Vince Gilligan on Writing About The Constants (2013)

“I tend to shy away from overt politics in my writing because human problems will go on forever. The problems of living that we all face – no matter where we live throughout the world – is that there are certain human truths and constants. I am in no way comparing the work we do to Shakespeare, but when you think of Shakespeare, he wrote about basic human constants, and that’s the lesson I like to take as a writer. Politics, they come and go. But certain problems, they stick with us, always, no matter where we live and who we are. There are certain things that bind us all, that a person on one side of the globe can understand because someone else on the other side of the globe
is facing the same kind of situation.”