«Crazy crisp dialogue. Incredibly tight plotting. Big emotion.»

«as opposed to irate.»

«[What about remarks from the actor that he's getting too old to play an immortal vampire who never ages?] Well, we're working. We're trying. I know James is in very good shape, ... Keep working out, James.»

«I watched that episode a thousand times [Once more, with feeling]....because I'm an incredible narcissist.»

«[After being asked what he thinks about people saying the 6th season of Buffy got a little too dark]Um....oops?...oh come on...I thought it was funny!»

«As far as I am concerned, the first episode of Buffy was the beginning of my career. It was the first time I told a story from start to finish the way I wanted.»

«It's a question of opening it up, and it's a question of closing it down, ... You know, opening it up in the sense of: We need a giant, epic story that is not the kind of thing these people usually get involved in in a TV series, which is more mundane. You need a reason for this to be a movie. The closing comes in making sure that it is accessible to everybody: that you explain everybody as much as you need to, that you explain the world as much as you need to, that you begin and you end, that you have an arc for the character, as well as a plot that has a question and then an answer.»

«I like my chances. But it is absolutely still too amorphous for me to make any kind of announcement about it. I'm out there trying, and there's other people trying, to put it together. But until something falls in place, I really can't say.»

«I thought 'this is too exciting to let go of.' »

«Originally, I was hesitant. But then it's also sort of why I became really interested, because she doesn't have so much baggage for me, the way, say, Spider-Man would.»