If something isn't working, if you have a story that you've built and it's blocked and you can't figure it out, take your favorite scene, or your very best idea or set-piece, and cut it. It's brutal, but sometimes inevitable.
Joss WhedonHe's like Super Librarian, y'know? Everyone forgets, Willow, that knowledge is the ultimate weapon.
Joss WhedonYou know what? I was wrong. You are an idiot. My life happens to, on occasion, suck beyond the telling of it. Sometimes more than I can handle.
Joss WhedonPsychic, though? That sounds like something out of science fiction. We live in a space ship, dear.
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