I respect the rules of TV, the rules of keeping things commercial and interesting and pop-y and fun.

I don't have a particular ambition in any medium. I just want to keep telling stories. If somebody pays me, also good.

I'm not big on regret. It's not on my schedule.

If I had created reality television I would have had a much greater influence, but then I would have had to KILL MYSELF.

Captain, I think you have a problem with your brain being missing.

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.

I've seen [Donald Trump] appear in a film or a TV show cameo or the tabloids, and he's a grotesquely distasteful human being and always has been, always made me want to take a shower. But other people fell in love with him as a reality star. So does that mean that the entertainment industry is doing something wrong? I think reality TV answered that question a long time ago: Yes, it's doing something terribly wrong. But there's some great reality TV, and I'm not bagging on it completely.