Season 2 is over, but that doesn't mean there you can't still immerse yourself in Breaking Bad. Go behind-the-scenes to hear from the men and women working on the other side of the camera to make Walter White's world an on-screen reality with AMCtv.com's exclusive crew interviews.

• "I think certain characters deserve and demand redemption. I love a happy ending as much as anybody... I'd like to take a page from Grimm's Fairy Tales and perhaps have that kind of an ending for some, if not all of our characters." -- Vince Gilligan (Creator)

• "My job is not just to do lighting and set up shots but to make sure the lighting and the shots reflect the scene in the most effective way. If I'm moved by what I see, then I know we've done well." -- Michael Slovis (Director of Photography)

• "Blowing up the turtle with Tortuga's head on it for Episode 7 was awfully complicated... I've never tested an explosion that much. What looks like one explosion is actually nine separate explosions, quickly timed." -- Dennis Petersen (Special Effects Supervisor)

• "The most important thing that came from Vince was that we always tried to stay real, but with a little tweak. If something seemed too right, or too pretty or too wrong we always went back to that mantra." -- Scott Clark (Location Manager)

• "It was very important to create a warm enough color for our universe so that the actors felt real in it. The White house, for example: You had to feel that family had been there for a long time, and it was real for them. We built it in two weeks for the pilot and it's still sitting there." -- Robb Wilson King (Production Designer)

• "I appreciate my role as an actor much more after I direct because it's just easier. You're focused on what you as a character want and need and how to go about getting it. As a director you're worried about everyone." -- Bryan Cranston (Episode 1 Director)

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Breaking Bad's location manager takes AMCtv.com on a virtual tour of the Albuquerque destinations seen throughout Season 2, explaining how each spot fills Vince Gilligan's "tweakiness" requirement.

Q: What sort of look do you go for when you're scouting locations for Breaking Bad?

A: The most important thing that came from Vince was that we always tried to stay real, but with a little tweak. If something seemed too right, or too pretty or too wrong we always went back to that mantra. And that determined a lot of what we did. We'd find real stuff, but we'd look for that little oddity that they added on to the place, whether it had a pool that you didn't think of when you started, or things that were just a little different that you wouldn't have thought of right off the bat. And Albuquerque fit like a glove; 90 percent of what we did was keep it Albuquerque and keep it tweaky.

Q: What about Walt's house lends itself to that tweakiness?

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The actor ponders whether Jesse has hit rock bottom, reflects on Season 2's more domesticated moments and relates the inherent danger of interacting with other cast members in AMCtv.com's exclusive interview.

Q: You played a heroin addict in the movie Wasted. Was that helpful in preparing you for this season of Breaking Bad?

A: Yeah, Wasted was about an epidemic that happened in Plano, Texas. And they set us up then with actual users who were still using, and we got to ask them any question we could think of: I asked if there was anything they could compare the feeling to, what it tastes like; what do you do the first time you do it? I've never been around that kind of drug. Living in Los Angeles you run into other sketchy things, but heroin is so dark and intense and very specific.

Q: Jesse has been depicted throughout the show as an addict, but at least a functioning one. Do you think by the end of Season 2 he's hit bottom?

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