Writer

Limitations are something that I latch onto - like working in genre, or if you're writing TV, there are act breaks, there's a length of time it's supposed to be. The restrictions of budget and sets can be really useful. When you can have everything, it's very hard to make things feel real and lived in.

There's a lot of anger in the Twitter-verse, as I've discovered. But there's a lot of love.

I would like to have as much going on as other people do, but my problem is I get so attached to things, and there's my kids, and I need my sleep, and then there's being married - gotta check in on that, too.

You don't buy a Picasso because you love the frame.

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.

Science fiction is like a blender - you can put in any historical experience and take influences from everything you see, read or experience.

The only way to real mature love is to get past the tropes of what we consider 'romance.'

There's not going to be a 'Buffy' season nine on television.

Personally, the NSA collecting data on me freaks me out. It totally freaks me out. And yet I'm from the generation that wants to put a GPS in their kids so I always know where they are.

The fact is some people really love my work, some people not so much, but at the end of the day, I don't want anybody coming out of the movie thinking about me.

I don't believe in creating exclusionary art.

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.

On one level, I must never lose touch with my audience. But I must, at some point, stop trying to get everybody to like me, and be true to the thing I think I need to say.

I get recognized just often enough to keep my ego bouncing along, but not so much that I can't go places.

Something like 'Much Ado' happens, and even 'Avengers' happens because of the years of building connections and doing the work and proving yourself.

I've been in this business for a long while, but it's not like I've been waiting tables. Since I started writing, I've only worked on things that I love. I've had a lot of heartbreak, but you don't become an artist and not expect that.

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.

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.

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.

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.'