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Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.
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I don't want the giant ego. I don't want to become Kevin Costner, singing on the soundtrack to The Postman.
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As far as I am concerned, the first episode of Buffy was the beginning of my career. It was the first time I told a story from start to finish the way I wanted.
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I'm a very hard-line, angry atheist. Yet I am fascinated by the concept of devotion.
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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.
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Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there.
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Always be yourself... unless you suck.
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I love fantasy. I love horror. I love musicals. Whatever doesn't really happen in life is what I'm interested in. As a way of commenting on everything that does happen in life, because ultimately the only thing I'm really interested in is people.
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That title, is one of the things I fought for. A lot of people said 'But it's stupid, and it's the title of a comedy movie, and people won't take it seriously,' and I'm sure there are some people who still don't. But for the most part, people do see that we really have a quality show.
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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.
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Buffy loves Angel. He loves her. And I love Ho Hos.
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I am a great believer in found families and I'm not a great believer in blood.
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I think everyone who makes movies should be forced to do television. Because you have to finish. You have to get it done, and there are a lot of decisions made just for the sake of making decisions. You do something because it's efficient and because it gets the story told and it connects to the audience.
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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.
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The two things that matter the most to me: emotional resonance and rocket launchers. Party of Five, a brilliant show, and often made me cry uncontrollably, suffered ultimately from a lack of rocket launchers.
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I also don't trust Caribou anymore. They're out there, on the tundra, waiting... Something's going down. I'm right about this.
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I hate it when people talk about Buffy as being campy... I hate camp, I don't enjoy dumb TV. I believe Aaron Spelling has single-handedly lowered SAT scores.
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Remember to always be yourself.
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Writers are completely out of touch with reality.
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There are two things that interest me - and they're both power, ultimately. One is not having it and one is abusing it.
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If somebody comes up to me, it's because they're moved by something I'm moved by. I've never taken a job I didn't love... So when somebody's coming up to me, or they're writing, they're in the same space I am in.
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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.
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There's a reason Tony Stark makes fun of 'Thor,' and mentions 'Shakespeare' in the park in 'The Avengers.' It's great to play high drama and comedy alongside a modern story.
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I can do web, comic books, macrame, art.
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When you're making a film, you have an obligation to fill the frame with life.
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Absolutely eat dessert first. The thing that you want to do the most, do that.
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I used to write chronologically when I started, from beginning to end. Eventually I went, 'That's absurd; my heart is in this one scene, therefore I must follow it.'
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I always enjoy conversation more if there is some substance to it - which is a just incredibly hilarious thing for me to say because for many, many years I was the guy whose only contribution to any conversation was, 'There was a funny 'Simpson's' joke about that.'
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Every writer loves the idea of being able to go in and fix a problem and then leave without obligation. It's fun!
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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.
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