I’m working on Buffy: Deep Space Nine. It will be dark and badly received.
It’s not any huge secret that I’m an atheist.
Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there.
I write to give myself strength.
People always say I write a lot of pop culture references. Can somebody please count the pop culture references in ‘Firefly?’ Because I don’t know how to put this to you, but there was one. I referenced The Beatles in the pilot.
I don’t write just to be clever. But sometimes I do. And if you don’t have an understanding of the language, then the way in which it’s bent doesn’t actually register. It’s the old you-gotta-paint-like-them-before-you-can-paint-like-you thing.
I’m never interested in movies where you don’t care about the people you’re watching, and that’s my biggest quibble about horror, that kids have gotten stupider and stupider.
You have a responsibility to listen to the dissent in yourself.
Making ‘The Avengers’ was very important to me, but it was also extremely arduous. I missed my friends and I missed my home, so I decided to throw them all on camera, which is the only way I seem to know to relate to people.
Everybody who made it through adolescence is a hero.
I think there’s a possibility that comic book movies are getting a tiny bit better on the one hand because they’re no longer made by executives, who are, you know, ninety-year-old bald tailors with cigars, going, ‘The kids love this!’
Sarah Michelle Gellar’s made some really good choices. She’s had some bad breaks. She goes with the independent, interesting young filmmakers and then they get slammed, like ‘Southland Tales.’ I’m proud of what she’s trying to do. It’s hard.
I think it’s always important for academics to study popular culture, even if the thing they are studying is idiotic. If it’s successful or made a dent in culture, then it is worthy of study to find out why.
You can either watch TV or you can make TV.
Let freedom ring, unless it’s on vibrate.
You go to movies to see people you love suffer – that’s why you go to the movies. You don’t go to see a movie about a guy who already knows he has a wonderful life.
It’s very important that we start creating new content again. We can only build on nostalgia so much before we have nothing left to build on.
If I wrote what I really think, I would be so sad all the time. We create to fill a gap – not just to avoid the idea of dying, it’s to fill some particular gap in ourselves.
I go to movies expecting to have a whole experience. If I want a movie that doesn’t end, I’ll go to a French movie. A movie has to be complete within itself; it can’t just build off the first one or play variations.
I’m well aware when they fired the starting gun I was halfway down the track, but I still ran as fast as I could for 25 years.