Two things that matter to me. Emotional resonance and rocket launchers.

I mean, I knew I wasn't a nice person, but what did I do in my past life to deserve this? I must have hit a bus full of nuns while driving a stolen car on my way to selling drugs to schoolchildren!

What 'Scream' was great at was presenting ironic detachment and then making you actually care about the people that were having it, and juxtaposing it with their situation, all in the service of making a great horror movie. It was fresh.

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.

Everything I do is going to contain the message that men who are going to be comfortable with powerful women are going to be more powerful men

Paul Hollywood's "You're under baked" is even better than "You're fired."

He's like Super Librarian, y'know? Everyone forgets, Willow, that knowledge is the ultimate weapon.