Jane Espenson Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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?

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

Forgive my rudeness. I cannot abide useless people.

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.

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.

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."

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

I saw it on the Twitter of today, on the online boards. There was a huge amount of negative reaction that's been forgotten because the quality eventually shined through. But usually it takes people a while to see what they've got on their plate. And I think, with "Jessica Jones," it's this anomalous thing where, and because of the original property being so good, people saw it right away, which is very unusual.

Luck is opportunity plus preparation plus luck.

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

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

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