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If I had created reality television I would have had a much greater influence, but then I would have had to KILL MYSELF.
Why anybody gets my sense of humor I never know, but I do know that when they do, I keep them as close as I possibly can.
I never give up on anything, because you come back around, and suddenly the thing you thought you'd never do is relevant.
Angelus: Now that's everything, huh? No weapons... No friends...No hope. Take all that away... and what's left? Buffy: Me.
I'm totally cool. I'm totally calm, and I'm totally cool. My calm is exceeded only by my cool. Which is total. Here we go.
It's about women. It's about power and it's about women and you just hate those two words in the same sentence, don't you?
Even in the darkness, every color can be found. And every day of rain brings water flowing to things growing in the ground.
'Buffy' is about growing up. 'Angel' is really about already having grown up, dealing with what you've done, and redemption.
I still believe that even though 'The Empire Strikes Back' is better in innumerable ways than 'Star Wars,' 'Star Wars' wins.
Forgiveness is like a great act of compassion. That it was done not because someone deserved it, but because they needed it.
I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of.
I was a little bit ashamed of American TV because I thought, 'None of the shows my father works on are as funny as my father.'
"'Come on, guys, I'm the leader of a whole movie...!' I tell when I want people to fear and respect me. Not wildly effective."
I didn't know feminism was actually a thing until I left home and found out the country didn't run the way my mom's house did.
I also don't trust Caribou anymore. They're out there, on the tundra, waiting... Something's going down. I'm right about this.
The people who feel the most strongly about something will turn on you the most vociferously if they feel you've let them down.
I was very proud of my father, and I admired him, but I always thought he was more interesting than the shows he was working on.
The comic world has its own limitations, as everything does. I adore it, I respect it, but it's not going to take over all of me.
I leave the world in terrible turmoil. I come back, same turmoil. Nothing at all different. Well, outfits are a little different.
I set out in television with one simple goal: to purchase a Russian bride. Didn't work out. Immigration stuff - it's complicated.
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.
The first lesson a watcher learns is to separate truth from illusion. Because in the world of magics, it's the hardest thing to do.
A lot of people who saw 'The Avengers' didn't read comic books, don't like comic book movies, and enjoyed it. That was huge for me.
My visions of the future are always pretty much standard issue. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer and there are flying cars.
Movies were always the goal, but I had a lot of goals. Twelve-year-old me wanted to do everything: act and sing and paint and dance.
The news isn't there to tell you what happened. It's there to tell you what it wants you to hear or what it thinks you want to hear.
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.
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."
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.'
The master plan does not have a master plan. Television ultimately finds itself, and after it finds itself, it finds itself changing.
I got a bunch of people together to talk about doing a lot and decided that I really want to throw my hand in and do as much as I can.
Do you love me? What? Do you? I love you. I don't know if I trust you. Maybe you shouldn't do either. Maybe I'm the one who should decide!
How do you know your Colossus is the genuine article in the first place? I read his mind. I matched his DNA. I smelled him. I also did that.
I love to write. I love it. I mean there's nothin in the world I like better, and that includes sex, probably because I'm so very bad at it.
Science fiction is like a blender - you can put in any historical experience and take influences from everything you see, read or experience.
In other news, it's been far too long since I gloated massively about the fact that I know what's going to happen on Buffy and you all don't.
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.
All worthy work is open to interpretations the author did not intend. Art isn't your pet -- it's your kid. It grows up and talks back to you.
Because to me, there is no logic of any kind behind misogyny. Therefore, it’s funny, because it’s so completely random to me. It’s senseless.
In every generation there is a chosen one. She alone will stand against the vampires the demons and the forces of darkness. She is the slayer.
Everything I do is going to contain the message that men who are going to be comfortable with powerful women are going to be more powerful men
I like to think that I'm a populist entertainer, but I'm a little bit idiosyncratic, and sometimes the networks wouldn't really roll with that.
You know what? I was wrong. You are an idiot. My life happens to, on occasion, suck beyond the telling of it. Sometimes more than I can handle.
I never write anything without humor, just because I like humor, but at the same time, it is a way for anything fantastical to become relatable.
I've often said there's no such thing as a track record in TV. I seen people who created things much more successful than mine treated like dirt.
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.
I like Victorian children's novels extremely a lot. If I would say I collect anything, that's what I'll hunt for now and again at old book stores.
My absolute favorite part of Comic-Con is seeing, like, a 'Mass Effect' guy hanging out with a 'Sailor Moon,' and they're just having a great time.
I usually write things in my head before I ever write them down. When I write it out, usually I've already figured out what it is I'm trying to do.
I keep thinking they’re gonna call me. I keep thinking they’re gonna crunch the numbers and think, oh, we can make money with this! And they don’t.