The series finale will mark only the fifth time Gilligan has directed an episode during the show's entire five-season run. He previously directed the pilot, the last episode of season three and the last two episodes of season four.
"I'm going to write the very last episode. It's the only one I'll have written with these final eight, so I'm hoping I have enough time to write it," Gilligan said while attending the ceremony where Breaking Bad took home the award for best television drama.
When asked how he felt about the series ending, Gilligan wasn't shy about revealing how sad he's become now that the end is in sight.
"I'm sad, it's a very bittersweet thing. I'm very sad about it being over," he admitted. "There's always going to be somebody who says they wished it went a different way. But if it ends well, if it ends right.
Hopefully we're going to please the bulk of our viewers with this ending. We're going to leave it all on the field, I can tell you that."
According to Gilligan, the third-to-last episode's script is finished, and the penultimate episode is being written this week. Preproduction on the series finale begins at the end of February, so he said he needs to start putting his fingers to the keyboard to get the final script finished in time.