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… — Jane Espenson Copy Share Image
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… — Jane Espenson Copy Share Image
It is possible to care too much. It is possible to believe that you will never be as good as anyone else. And it… — Jane Espenson Copy Share Image
I hope I am pigeonholed with comedy. I'm really not interested in writing the darker stuff, the emotional stuff. — Jane Espenson Copy Share Image
Melissa [ Rosenberg] really has mastered coming from character. Everything radiates from the characters in this work. You don't feel like anything's imposed. — Jane Espenson Copy Share Image
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… — Jane Espenson Copy Share Image
Movies are always made by committees, and the writer is not at the head of the committee. Thus, mush. — Jane Espenson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You embraced what was already on the page, worked with it, massaged it. — Jane Espenson Copy Share Image
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… — Jane Espenson Copy Share Image
“Why Banning Miller, what a vision you are in your fine dress. Must've taken a dozen slaves a dozen days to get you into… — Jane Espenson Copy Share Image
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… — Jane Espenson Copy Share Image
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