Absolutely eat dessert first. The thing that you want to do the most, do that.

I like my chances. But it is absolutely still too amorphous for me to make any kind of announcement about it. I'm out there trying, and there's other people trying, to put it together. But until something falls in place, I really can't say.

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.

That's the great thing about 'The West Wing:' you really felt like you were in the thick of it.

Every vampire fiction reinvents vampires to its own needs. You take what you want.

The thing with the comics is that you have license to go down every alley your brain can think of.