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I am not a fan of referencing your own work when it's in a different universe than what you're doing. That, to me, is a wink at the audience, and winking isn't actually cool when you're not, like, 10.

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I'm never interested in movies where you don't care about the people you're watching, and that's my biggest quibble about horror, that kids have gotten stupider and stupider.

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A great scientist is more open to a new idea than almost anybody.

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There are two things that I cannot resist: one is musicals and the other is a spaceship in trouble. But I am smart enough not to combine the two things.

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

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In TV, there's so much compromise, it does start to grate a bit. But if you're a writer or an actor, it really is the place to be.

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The networks have a particular agenda, a particular model and structure. It doesn't have anything to do with content. This is not a dis on them - they are a business model, run by business people.

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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.

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I think it's not inaccurate to say that I had a perfectly happy childhood during which I was very unhappy.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: June 23rd, 1964

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