Quotes by Jane Espenson

Jane Espenson

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.

Meaningful

Opposites

Real

Forgive my rudeness. I cannot abide useless people.

Forgiving

People

Useless

I hope I am pigeonholed with comedy. I’m really not interested in writing the darker stuff, the emotional stuff.

Emotional

Stuff

Writing

I know I’m not great at structure and story.

Knows

Stories

Structure

I like the way that Dexter mixed humor, dark humor and tragedy, in a way I don’t think that I’ve seen another show do. To handle those tonal shifts with so much confidence. Normally, you can mix humor and dark humor, you can mix dark humor and tragedy, but to mix all three… There are just moments with Robin and Reuben, the next door neighbors, that are just funny.

Dark

Doors

Thinking

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.’

Doctors

Thinking

Two

I saw it on the Twitter of today, on the online boards. There was a huge amount of negative reaction that’s been forgotten because the quality eventually shined through. But usually it takes people a while to see what they’ve got on their plate. And I think, with “Jessica Jones,” it’s this anomalous thing where, and because of the original property being so good, people saw it right away, which is very unusual.

People

Quality

Thinking

I think people look back on shows like “Firefly” or “Buffy,” and they remember it with this glow about it of positive response, but if you look back… If Twitter had existed, there would have been a lot of negative tweeting about “Firefly.”

Firefly

People

Thinking

I think we should all start worrying about being downloaded and put in robots.

Robots

Thinking

Worry

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.

Competition

Stuff

Watches

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Angel

Believe

Care

Character

Committees

Competition

Dark

Diversity

Doctors

Doors

Emotional

Feelings

Feels

Fire

Firefly

Forgiving

Giving

Good Man

Knows

Love Is

Love You

Luck

Made

Meaningful

Melissa

Men

Needed

Numbers

Opponents

Opportunity

Opposites

Pages

Pain

People

Polished

Preparation

Quality

Real

Robots

Stories

Structure

Stuff

Stupid

Thinking

Together

Too Much

Two

Useless

Watches

World

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Quotes by Jane Espenson

Jane Espenson

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.

Forgive my rudeness. I cannot abide useless people.

I hope I am pigeonholed with comedy. I’m really not interested in writing the darker stuff, the emotional stuff.

I know I’m not great at structure and story.

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.’

I think people look back on shows like “Firefly” or “Buffy,” and they remember it with this glow about it of positive response, but if you look back… If Twitter had existed, there would have been a lot of negative tweeting about “Firefly.”

I think we should all start worrying about being downloaded and put in robots.

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.

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