Jane Espenson Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“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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“Forgive my rudeness. I cannot abide useless people.”
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“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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“Movies are always made by committees, and the writer is not at the head of the committee. Thus, mush.”
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“I hope I am pigeonholed with comedy. I'm really not interested in writing the darker stuff, the emotional stuff.”
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“I think we should all start worrying about being downloaded and put in robots.”
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“The outside world is what kept Buffy and Angel from being together.”
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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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.”
-- Jane Espenson
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