Jane Espenson Quotes

#1. I think people look back on shows like "Firefly" or "Buffy," and they remember it with this glow about it of positive response, but if you look back ... If Twitter had existed, there would have been a lot of negative tweeting about "Firefly."

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#2. I know I'm not great at structure and story.

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#3. Forgive my rudeness. I cannot abide useless people.

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#4. You are full of love. You love with all of your soul. It's brighter than the fire ... blinding. That's why you pull away from it ... Love is pain ... Love ... give ... forgive. Risk the pain. It is your nature.

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#5. We had all been feeling this, about the Buffy/Riley relationship. It never had the fire that Buffy/Angel did. It wasn't really meant to.

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#6. If something needed to be written, if something needed to be polished, needed to be re-written, I was just handed pages.

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#7. It is possible to care too much. It is possible to believe that you will never be as good as anyone else. And it is possible to let these things take over.

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#8. In the case of judges, I wouldn't be shocked to find out the number on television exceeds the number in real life - what is it about those black robes that makes us think ovaries?

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#9. If we can't write diversity into sci-fi, then what's the point? You don't create new worlds to give them all the same limits of the old ones.

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#10. I recently had to wait two and a half hours in a doctor's office, just waiting to be seen. I literally was genuinely thinking Well, maybe this is a time loop

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#11. Mercy is the mark of a great man! (stabs defeated opponent) I guess I'm just a good man. (stabs opponent again) Well ... I'm alright.

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#12. Any story worth telling relates to real life in some meaningful way. Scifi allows you to tell meaningful stories without seeming too preachy - it adds a metaphorical layer between the story and the real world. Scifi is dismissed as ungrounded fluff, but it's actually the opposite.

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#13. Movies are always made by committees, and the writer is not at the head of the committee. Thus, mush.

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#14. The outside world is what kept Buffy and Angel from being together.

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#15. I hope I am pigeonholed with comedy. I'm really not interested in writing the darker stuff, the emotional stuff.

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#16. DeWitt: Loneliness leads to nothing good, only detachment. And sometimes the people who most need to reach out are the people least capable of it.

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#17. Melissa [ Rosenberg] really has mastered coming from character. Everything radiates from the characters in this work. You don't feel like anything's imposed.

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#18. I watch a lot of TV, but I find that recently it's largely oddball stuff ... Scripted stuff sometimes feels like homework, like I'm scoping out the competition or something.

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#19. You embraced what was already on the page, worked with it, massaged it.

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#20. Why Banning Miller, what a vision you are in your fine dress. Must've taken a dozen slaves a dozen days to get you into that getup. 'Course, your daddy tells me it takes the space of a schoolboy's wink to get you out of it again.

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#21. Luck is opportunity plus preparation plus luck.

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#22. I think we should all start worrying about being downloaded and put in robots.

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