Quotes

Here are some memorable quotes from the man himself.

On his role on Angel:

“Knox is great. He is a complete indulgence in all of the parts of myself that I am most shy about.”

“I remember picking up the script where Fred dissed him and being very sad but I think it was nice, because it took Knox from all of the ways you thought Knox would be. All of the ways that the predictions came down: he’ll be evil, he’ll be good, they will fall in love; they won’t fall in love. All of the avenues I thought they would go down, they didn’t go down and they picked the one I couldn’t even think of. You know something is going happen but they pick the thing you know nobody had been able to figure out.”

On working with James Marsters:

“I didn’t meet James until we were on Angel. And I was totally, totally amazed by this guy. His generosity, his love, and he really doesn’t take anything for granted. He’s a really sincere man, and I was really impressed to see him so keen and levelheaded after so many years.”

On his Buffy/Angel/Firefly hat-trick:

“The whole thing was a complete surprise. I don’t really have any favorite episodes, what I have is the favorite people I got to keep seeing on the shows, which I think is really sort of rare. All of the people who work on all of these shows have been really enormously talented and I thought it would really be on singular shows that I would see them again someday but I got to see all of the people again and I was so thrilled.”

On his role in Firefly:

“I think, that if Tracey had not been killed, and the show had not been cancelled… any number of a million things could have happened! One of which being, it could have been turned into ‘Tracey’s Firefly’! For instance.”

On how he’d write an episode of Firefly:

“I think Tracey should sleep with Jayne and then kill him off.”

To a UK convention audience on what happened to Tracey’s original guts:

“I really couldn’t tell you what happened to my own guts! Let’s write away to… our senators… you don’t have them. Write to your MPs, tell them to all bring it up with Joss. What happened to Tracey’s real guts?! Don’t tell me he was gutless!”

On his role in Bettie Page:

“It’s called the Ballad of Bettie Page. It’s about this woman in her underpants! It’s great! I was her boyfriend! Even better! And I’m not positive, but I’m told I didn’t ruin it!”