I do listen to music. Movie scores, exclusively, because it's all about mood and nonspecificity. I love the way modern movie scoring is all about nonspecificity. You know, if I shuffled the tracks from 'Inception,' I challenge you to tell me which is which.

Xander, don't speak Latin in front of the books.

The first thing I ever thought of when I thought of Buffy , the movie, was the little...blonde girl who goes into a dark alley and gets killed, in every horror movie. The idea of Buffy was to subvert that idea, that image, and create someone who was a hero where she had always been a victim. That element of surprise ... genre-busting is very much at the heart of both the movie and the series.

If you can't run, you crawl. If you can't crawl-- you find someone to carry you.

I was raised by a hardcore feminist.

Can't stop the signal

I wanted to drag Shakespeare from obscurity. I've been a fan my whole life.