Never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence. Think about it. People aren't out to get you, they're just stupid.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.