I’m a very hard-line, angry atheist. Yet I am fascinated by the concept of devotion.
The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn’t look like there’s a light at the end of the tunnel, he’s going to keep digging, he’s going to keep trying to do right and make up for what’s gone before, just because that’s who he is.
Writers are completely out of touch with reality.
A great scientist is more open to a new idea than almost anybody.
A writer is supposed to have anonymity.
Stay crunchy, even in milk.
There is nothing more painful in the world than Aly when she makes her big eyes. She makes her big hurt eyes, there’s nothing you can do. She just kills you.
I believe the only reality is how we treat each other. The morality comes from the absence of any grander scheme, not from the presence of any grander scheme.
Veronica solves little puzzles because she, like all of us, cannot unravel the bigger ones.
We don’t need heroes so much as recognizing ourselves as heroes.
I tried to write a TV series, and then I discovered first of all that I love writing more than anything on this earth, and that you could write exactly as well as you want to.
Buffy Anne Summers 1981-2001 Beloved sister Devoted Friend She saved the world A lot.
This is a sad, sad reflection on our times, when people must feed off the carcasses of beloved stories from their youths-just because they can’t think of an original idea of their own, like I did with my Avengers idea that I made up myself.
Every writer loves the idea of being able to go in and fix a problem and then leave without obligation. It’s fun!
Every kid who hated grownups becomes a grownup. Well, except the ones who died.
Let’s put it this way: If a raccoon can carry a movie, then they believe maybe even a woman can.
I find that when you read a script, or rewrite something, or look at something that’s been gone over, you can tell, like rings on a tree, by how bad it is, how long it’s been in development.
Casting is storytelling.
Someone else’s loss is my chocolatey goodness.
Every day’s a negotiation and sometimes it’s done with guns.