I don’t have a particular ambition in any medium. I just want to keep telling stories. If somebody pays me, also good.
I was raised by a hardcore feminist.
Kristen Stewart is kind of captivating; she can just stare at stuff and it works because I still want to watch it.
TV’s like whitewater rafting: Without rocks, there wouldn’t be rapids, and it wouldn’t be as much fun.
My favorite part of Comic-Con? The groupies. Man, they have loose morals, really. Men, women, I’m just saying that it gets weird on Sunday night. No, that’s sadly never happened.
What I love most about icons is finding out what’s behind them, exploring the price of their power.
When you’re making a film, you have an obligation to fill the frame with life.
When I created Buffy, I wanted to create a female icon, but I also wanted to be very careful to surround her with men that not only have no problem with the idea of a female leader, but were in fact engaged and even attracted to the idea.
Everybody who labels themselves a ‘nerd’ isn’t some giant person locked in a cubbyhole who’s never seen the opposite sex. Especially with the way the Internet is now, I think that definition is getting a little more diffuse.
I designed ‘Buffy’ to be an icon, to be an emotional experience, to be loved in a way that other shows can’t be loved. Because it’s about adolescence, which is the most important thing people go through in their development, becoming an adult.
You can’t be a storyteller and a speechwriter at the same time.
An audience who watches my shows knows who I am, knows that right when they think I’m going to make a joke, I’m going to blow something up, or during the worst peril, I’m going to have someone give someone a kiss – it’s just going to happen.
I’ve been to two festivals in my life, and I’ve never been to Toronto. I haven’t really been making festival movies. This is new territory for me.
In production, in the first couple of weeks of production, that it was more like making an internet musical.
In TV, there’s so much compromise, it does start to grate a bit. But if you’re a writer or an actor, it really is the place to be.
When I was a kid, maybe 11, I remember saying, ‘When I grow up I wanna have enough money to buy a really cool car, because I won’t.’
Who is to say who is the villain and who is the hero? Probably the dictionary.
My life has included a study of Shakespeare and to me it’s very natural, but I know that it’s not always accessible to other people.
Oddly enough, I never studied writing. I studied almost everything except writing.
There are two things that I cannot resist: one is musicals and the other is a spaceship in trouble. But I am smart enough not to combine the two things.