Joss Whedon quote: "When I say, "I love you," it's not because I want you or because I can't have you. It has nothing to do with me. I love what you are, what you do, how you try. I've seen your kindness and your strength. I've seen the best and the worst of you. And I understand with perfect clarity exactly what you are. You're a hell of a woman."

An audience who watches my shows knows who I am, knows that right when they think I'm going to m...
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Buffy loves Angel. He loves her. And I love Ho Hos.
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'Buffy' is about growing up. 'Angel' is really about already having grown up, dealin...
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When I created Buffy, I wanted to create a female icon, but I also wanted to be very careful to surr...
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I designed 'Buffy' to be an icon, to be an emotional experience, to be loved in a way that o...
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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 b...
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Passion. It lies in all of us. Sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted, unbidden, it will stir......
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I've had so much success. I had something to say, I got to say it, people heard it, and they agr...
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Science fiction is like a blender - you can put in any historical experience and take influences fro...
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Very occasionally, if you pay really close attention, life doesn't suck.
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I'll take crazy over stupid any day.
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Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE.
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Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.
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You can't take the sky from me.
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Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.
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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, ...
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I'm not a leader now. I'm a whole damn army.
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Passion, it lies in all of us, sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted... unbidden... it will sti...
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I also felt that Ron and Hermione would have gotten divorced. I'm sorry, I just do. The end of Harry...
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I could not conceive that [fans] actually wanted me to sign something. It took a long time for me to...
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Everything is a drug. Family, art, causes, new shoes... We're all just tweaking our chem to avoid th...
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I'd rather make a show 100 people need to see, than a show that 1000 people want to see.
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Don’t give people what they want, give them what they need.
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Somebody once asked me if I have anything like faith, and I said I have faith in the narrative. I ha...
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Equality is not a concept. It's not something we should be striving for. It's a necessity. Equality ...
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Ain't all buttons and charts, little albatross. Know what the first rule of flying is? Well I s'pose...
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The one thing a creator can bring to the table when everybody else has all the money and power is ce...
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The thing with the comics is that you have license to go down every alley your brain can think of.
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The Internet community started forming right when 'Buffy' started airing, and the notion of ...
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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 ...
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Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women.
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The thing about changing the world... Once you do it, the world's all different.
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Kristen Stewart is kind of captivating; she can just stare at stuff and it works because I still wan...
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There’s a fine line between support and stalking and let’s all stay on the right side of that.
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Writers are completely out of touch with reality. Writers are a crazy person. We create conflict - f...
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I was not popular in school, and I was definitely not a ladies' man. And I had a very painful ad...
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My first gig ever was writing looplines for a movie that had already been made. You know, writing li...
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A lot of people who saw 'The Avengers' didn't read comic books, don't like comic boo...
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There's a reason Tony Stark makes fun of 'Thor,' and mentions 'Shakespeare' in t...
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Something like 'Much Ado' happens, and even 'Avengers' happens because of the years ...
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I loved working with 'The Avengers' cast and we had a great time, but it was a job, and they...
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'The Dark Knight,' for me, has the same problem that every other 'Batman' movie has....
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Wonder Woman isn't Spider-man or Batman. She doesn't have a town, she has a world. That was ...
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Faith in God means believing absolutely in something with no proof whatsoever. Faith in humanity mea...
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The times are chaotic. For me, I would hope that people look at [Angel] and gain strength by it. Wit...
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Bottom line is, even if you see 'em coming, you're not ready for the big moments. No one asks for th...
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My mom and dad were divorced, and although they got along very well, my mom thought American televis...
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I didn't watch a lot of American television growing up. I just liked to read a lot and watch mov...
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I always was an early-morning or late-night writer. Early morning was my favorite; late night was be...
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'The Sixth Sense' is fine the second time around, but honestly, the first time around, it...
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Humor keeps us alive. Humor and food. Don't forget food. You can go a week without laughing.
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Because it’s no longer enough to be a decent person. It’s no longer enough to shake our heads an...
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So, why do you write these strong female characters?

Because you’re still asking me tha...
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I think it's always important for academics to study popular culture, even if the thing they are...
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I don't tend to write straight dramas where real life just impinges. But because I don't, wh...
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Recognizing power in another does not diminish your own.
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Who is to say who is the villain and who is the hero? Probably the dictionary.
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Everybody who labels themselves a 'nerd' isn't some giant person locked in a cubbyhole w...
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Absolutely eat dessert first. The thing that you want to do the most, do that.
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You know, I always was an early morning or late night writer. Early morning was my favorite; late ni...
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Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there.
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You go to movies to see people you love suffer - that's why you go to the movies. You don't go to se...
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This is something that I do consider to be good advice: I took my first paycheck and I put it in the...
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It's very important that we start creating new content again. We can only build on nostalgia so much...
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If I wrote what I really think, I would be so sad all the time. We create to fill a gap - not just t...
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I'm well aware when they fired the starting gun I was halfway down the track, but I still ran as fas...
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I'm the least confident person in so many ways. But I believed that if somebody gave me the chance t...
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I go to movies expecting to have a whole experience. If I want a movie that doesn't end, I'll go to ...
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Everything we do really is just a little marker on the long road to death. And sometimes that's over...
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It's a question of opening it up, and it's a question of closing it down, ... You know, opening it u...
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Those of us who write spend our entire lives in an endless English class.
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It's only recently women got to be action heroes on TV. Progress is slow, and often non-existent...
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I took the overreaching arc I was headed toward in the TV show and made that the plot of the movie, ...
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For me, the act of telling the story and showing it to somebody is almost gravy.
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My dad would go to work every day and write in a room full of funny people. He enjoyed it. I know gr...
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I always believe in just have as much fun as you can so that when you're in the part that you ha...
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What I do like is hiking. And that's what filmmaking is. It's a hike. It's challenging a...
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I watched that episode a thousand times [Once more, with feeling]....because I'm an incredible narci...
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What I love most about icons is finding out what's behind them, exploring the price of their pow...
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The misogyny that is in every culture is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of b...
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I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all ...
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It may not feel too classy, begging just to eat
But you know who does that?
Lassie, and s...
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Shiny, let's be bad guys!
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If the apocalypse comes...beep me!
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That girl will rain destruction down on you and your ship. She is an albatross, Captain.

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Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FRIKKIN' SH...
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We are, all of us, incoherent text, and just knowing that - knowing that no matter how much you say,...
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What's exciting is, like, Batman Begins basically really did a wonderful job explaining exactly why ...
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It's the story of a young woman's journey that involves a great deal of horror and some heroics. It'...
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There are good crews in every country, ... But there are certain ways of working. We were able to co...
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Let's say it's a good jumping off point,
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I thought maybe another network or a miniseries,
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I thought 'this is too exciting to let go of.'
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As far as I am concerned, the first episode of Buffy was the beginning of my career. It was the firs...
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It's the story of a young woman's journey that involves a great deal of horror and some heroics,
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I think everyone who makes movies should be forced to do television. Because you have to finish. You...
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Now that that paradigm has worked, the market will be inundated, ... It's a revenue source companies...
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James suddenly seemed to have his guitar *all* the time and at the drop of a hat...or even with no h...
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Like Pain, fear can be controlled
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I wrote movies every week, that's what I did. It was about finding that moment that is so good, so r...
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It was really fun, ... Though I did discover that the Chinese language can say a lot with very few s...
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It's about how much freedom you can take away from somebody before they either fold or fight, ... It...
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Mal: [closing the doors] Good day!
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The master plan does not have a master plan. Television ultimately finds itself, and after it finds ...
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Wherever I was, I was happy. At peace. I knew that everyone I cared about was all right. I knew it. ...
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Two things that matter to me. Emotional resonance and rocket launchers.
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You either have to write or you shouldn't be writing. That's all.
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Redemption is something you have to fight for in a very personal, down-dirty way. Some of our charac...
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All worthy work is open to interpretations the author did not intend. Art isn't your pet -- it's you...
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Seven years, Dawn. Working with the Slayer. Seeing my friends get more and more powerful... a witch....
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Ultimately what I end up writing about is helplessness and the flipside of that, empowerment.
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"Someone else's loss is my chocolatey goodness"
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I think it's not inaccurate to say that I had a perfectly happy childhood during which I was ver...
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Horror movies don't exist unless you go and see them, and people always will.
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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 would love to give you a more in-depth coherent explanation of my view of the soul, and if I had o...
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Every kid who hated grownups becomes a grownup. Well, except the ones who died.
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Everything we do really is just a little marker on the long road to death. And sometimes that’s ov...
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My favorite part of Comic-Con? The groupies.
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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,...
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We'll meet a Wonder Woman who is similar to the one from the original comics and from the TV series ...
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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 P...
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as opposed to irate.
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We'll never make Firefly again, because that was a thing that existed and is now gone. And Serenity ...
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Firefly
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Always be yourself... unless you suck.
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The two things that matter the most to me: emotional resonance and rocket launchers. Party of Five, ...
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I was given license to purely make it my own and yet she is already an iconic Amazon princess,
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They're a lot more attractive than I am, actually, ... Which kind of disturbs and upsets me.
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I'm a believer in that, ... I am a great believer in found families and I'm not a great believer in ...
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The idea behind the show, ... was to take nine people and say, 'Nine people look out into the blackn...
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I had this extraordinary world I helped create, with this cast I felt were the most extraordinary pe...
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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've been to two festivals in my life, and I've never been to Toronto. I haven't really ...
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Lockheed! You found me! You are the best X-Dragon ever.
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I leave the world in terrible turmoil. I come back, same turmoil. Nothing at all different. Well, ou...
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How do you know your Colossus is the genuine article in the first place?

I read his mind....
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I love fantasy. I love horror. I love musicals. Whatever doesn't really happen in life is what I...
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You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are.
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Come a day there won’t be room for naughty men like us to slip about at all. This job goes south, ...
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If you can't run, you crawl. If you can't crawl-- you find someone to carry you.
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In the case of both Buffy and Firefly , it was almost a case of devising a language,
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Bottom line is, even if you see them coming, you're not ready for the big moments. No one asks for t...
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People would say, 'You're going to need this and that,' and I'd be like, 'Not so much.' If I only ne...
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Serenity.
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We'll meet a Wonder Woman who is similar to the one from the original comics and from the TV series ...
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In TV the attitude is: 'Tell me what we have and we'll build around that,' ... Feature filmmaking se...
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[What about remarks from the actor that he's getting too old to play an immortal vampire who never a...
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[After being asked what he thinks about people saying the 6th season of Buffy got a little too dark]...
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I like my chances. But it is absolutely still too amorphous for me to make any kind of announcement ...
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I think it's realistic,
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Well, he's buff, really buff; he's a very attractive man, how come that never came up?
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Our luck? You noticed anything in particular about our luck these past few days? Any kind of pattern...
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She doesn't really understand this world. She's very strong but she's also very naive. She's not qui...
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I felt this was a story that had not been told, ... I just needed somebody to believe as strongly as...
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My reasons were completely personal, ... My wife is an architect; I have two kids under 3. There may...
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Crazy crisp dialogue. Incredibly tight plotting. Big emotion.
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I also don't trust Caribou anymore. They're out there, on the tundra, waiting... Something's going d...
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For me [Buffy] was about your teenage years but it was again the whole experience, the same situatio...
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Originally, I was hesitant. But then it's also sort of why I became really interested, because she d...
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Someone else's loss is my chocolatey goodness
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Serenity
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Because you should always do something on a spaceship if you can…
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Everything's shiny, Cap'n. Not to fret.
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It is, in an unprecedented sense, your movie. So, it if sucks, it's your fault.
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It's very sweet to mention the word sequel, ... Obviously that's the way my brain works. It continue...
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I am a leaf on the wind - watch how I soar
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Tonight sucks. And look at me. Look at - look at stupid Buffy. Too dumb for college, and-and-and fre...
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As we all know, blinking lights means science.
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People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. An...
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If every vampire who said he was at The Crucifixion, was actually there, it would have been like Woo...
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I love a good romantic comedy.
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Back in my day, which was about a week and a half ago, we took our lumps and we got back up and we c...
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I had older brothers, and I don't think there's anything worse than an older brother. They p...
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I don't know a lot of show runners. I mean I met a lot of them in picket lines. I'm not part...
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He's like Super Librarian, y'know? Everyone forgets, Willow, that knowledge is the ultimate weapon.
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I am not a fan of referencing your own work when it's in a different universe than what you'...
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Every vampire fiction reinvents vampires to its own needs. You take what you want.
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I go to movies expecting to have a whole experience. If I want a movie that doesn't end, I'l...
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That's the great thing about 'The West Wing:' you really felt like you were in the thick...
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I've never met a well-adjusted person. It's weird.
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I think to an extent every human being needs to be redeemed somewhat or at least needs to look at th...
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Nobody treating us like kids. For once, we gt to be equals, not babies. Could use more of that in th...
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I've got a theory, it could be bunnies...

I've got a theor-

Bunnies aren't jus...
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There are two things that I cannot resist: one is musicals and the other is a spaceship in trouble. ...
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Sarah Michelle Gellar's made some really good choices. She's had some bad breaks. She goes w...
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I always enjoy conversation more if there is some substance to it - which is a just incredibly hilar...
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I was never a games night guy, but at some point, social interaction starts to freak me out. So when...
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I'm never interested in movies where you don't care about the people you're watching, an...
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The news isn't there to tell you what happened. It's there to tell you what it wants you to hear or ...
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In my generation, there was a single girl given the strength and skill to fight the spread of darkne...
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I did my English A level in England, and we studied Shakespeare. I had great, great high school teac...
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My absolute favorite part of Comic-Con is seeing, like, a 'Mass Effect' guy hanging out with...
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Everything is so fragile. There's so much conflict, so much pain...you keep waiting for the dust to ...
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All I ask is this: Do something. Try something. Speaking out, showing up, writing a letter, a check,...
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Time for some thrillin' heroics.
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Captain, I think you have a problem with your brain being missing.
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My people - before I was changed - they exchanged this as a sign of devotion. It's a Claddagh ring. ...
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Personally, the NSA collecting data on me freaks me out. It totally freaks me out. And yet I'm f...
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I'm sorry. But it's like you said, Emma...I don't have any claws.
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