19 Quotes by Jane Espenson

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

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.

I know I’m not great at structure and story.

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.

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

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

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?

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