It was only when I got to college that I realized that the rest of the world didn't run the way my world was run, and that there was a need for feminism. I'd thought it was all solved. There are people like my mom, clearly everyone is equal and it's all fine. Then I get into the world and I hear the things people are saying. Then I get to Hollywood and hear the very casual, almost insidious misogyny that just runs through so much of the fiction. It was just staggering to me.
Joss WhedonPeople want the tragedy. They need things to go wrong, they need the tension. In my characters thereโs a core of trust and love that Iโm very committed to. These guys would die for each other, and itโs very beautiful. But at the same time, you canโt keep that safety. Things have to go wrong, bad things have to happen.
Joss WhedonI find that when you read a script, or rewrite something, or look at something that's been gone over, you can tell, like rings on a tree, by how bad it is, how long it's been in development.
Joss WhedonWe talked about various aspects of what we wanted to talk about, Hillary [Clinton] and [Donald] Trump and down-ballot stuff, various issues. One of the things that it showed was you've got to use fear.
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