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

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.

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.'

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

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.

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

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