Jane Espenson famous quotes

03-28-2025

If we can't write diversity into sci-fi, then what's the point? You don't create new worlds to give them all the same limits of the old ones.
-- Jane Espenson

#Writing #Giving #Diversity
Forgive my rudeness. I cannot abide useless people.
-- Jane Espenson

#People #Forgiving #Useless
I watch a lot of TV, but I find that recently it's largely oddball stuff ... Scripted stuff sometimes feels like homework, like I'm scoping out the competition or something.
-- Jane Espenson

#Competition #Watches #Stuff
Movies are always made by committees, and the writer is not at the head of the committee. Thus, mush.
-- Jane Espenson

#Made #Committees
I hope I am pigeonholed with comedy. I'm really not interested in writing the darker stuff, the emotional stuff.
-- Jane Espenson

#Writing #Emotional #Stuff
I think we should all start worrying about being downloaded and put in robots.
-- Jane Espenson

#Thinking #Worry #Robots
The outside world is what kept Buffy and Angel from being together.
-- Jane Espenson

#Angel #Together #World
We had all been feeling this, about the Buffy/Riley relationship. It never had the fire that Buffy/Angel did. It wasn't really meant to.
-- Jane Espenson

#Angel #Fire #Feelings
I recently had to wait two and a half hours in a doctor's office, just waiting to be seen. I literally was genuinely thinking Well, maybe this is a time loop
-- Jane Espenson

#Thinking #Doctors #Two
In the case of judges, I wouldn't be shocked to find out the number on television exceeds the number in real life â€” what is it about those black robes that makes us think ovaries?
-- Jane Espenson

#Real #Thinking #Numbers
Mercy is the mark of a great man! (stabs defeated opponent) I guess I'm just a good man. (stabs opponent again) Well ... I'm alright.
-- Jane Espenson

#Men #Good Man #Opponents
It is possible to care too much. It is possible to believe that you will never be as good as anyone else. And it is possible to let these things take over.
-- Jane Espenson

#Believe #Care #Too Much
Any story worth telling relates to real life in some meaningful way. Scifi allows you to tell meaningful stories without seeming too preachy - it adds a metaphorical layer between the story and the real world. Scifi is dismissed as ungrounded fluff, but it's actually the opposite.
-- Jane Espenson

#Meaningful #Real #Opposites

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