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Jane Espenson, née le 14 juillet 1964 à Ames , est une scénariste de télévision américaine qui a notamment travaillé sur les séries télévisées Buffy contre les vampires, Battlestar Galactica et Once Upon a Time. Wikipedia  

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Jane Espenson: Citations en anglais

“Any story worth telling relates to real life in some meaningful way.”

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"Caprica Producer Jane Espenson Redefines Racism in the BSG Universe" at AMCtv.com (April 2009) http://blogs.amctv.com/scifi-scanner/2009/04/jane-espenson-interview.php
Contexte: 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.

“Children are the world's most ardent traditionalists. They like things stable and categorized.”

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How to Succeed at Vampire Slaying and Keep Your Soul (2005)
Contexte: Children are the world's most ardent traditionalists. They like things stable and categorized. They want to know what girls can do and what girls can't do. Television, like it or not, teaches them a lot of these rules.

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

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"Jane Espenson - Interviewed at the Buffy soundstage" at BBC (23 August 2001) http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/buffy/interviews/espenson/printpage.html

“DeWitt: Loneliness leads to nothing good, only detachment. And sometimes the people who most need to reach out are the people least capable of it.”

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“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.”

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“I've been a television writer for a dozen years, and I've been fortunate to put words in the mouths of some great female characters. They've been working women, mostly, and I like to think they've become role models for a generation of girls trying to figure out their futures.
But let's be honest: TV isn't going to change anyone's perceptions of working women in the real world just by promoting fictional females to ever-higher positions of authority. And I'm not doing my job if I put a woman's career before her character.”

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How to Succeed at Vampire Slaying and Keep Your Soul (2005)

“I love the way Law and Order doesn’t always put their heroes on the side of good. And sometimes they win, sometimes they lose and sometimes for the wrong reasons. I also think it’s interesting that there is a series that has remained story-driven in its, what, sixtieth season, right? If not for them, I would argue that all shows eventually become soap operas about the lives of the characters. Law And Order does what it does and does it well. It may simply be that you’re mistaking consistency for blandness, how ’bout that, fella?”

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Response to interviewer declaring Law and Order "bland" in Ain't It Cool News interview (17 July 2003)

“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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Ain't It Cool News interview (17 July 2003)

“Moonlighting was funny, innovative, genre-busting chaos. Also, apparently, unsustainable. Sigh.”

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Ain't It Cool News interview (17 July 2003) http://www.whedon.info/Jane-Espenson-Buffy-Tv-Series.h

“Movies are always made by committees, and the writer is not at the head of the committee. Thus, mush.”

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Ain't It Cool News interview (17 July 2003)

“I will not listen to childcare lectures from a man who put his daughter in a box and shipped her to Maine.”

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Lines written for Regina (the Evil Queen) to David Nolan (Prince Charming), in the "We Are Both" episode of Once Upon a Time (7 October 2012)

“I can't make real-life workplaces safer and more fair for women just by showing them with briefcases or crossbows. But I can try to grant my characters the quirky gift of humanity — whether they're adjudicating torts or dishing tortes or saving the world. And hope the little girls watching do the rest.”

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How to Succeed at Vampire Slaying and Keep Your Soul (2005)

“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", because nothing seemed to be happening, no progress of any kind seemed to be being made, so I think we've all fallen into those time loops.”

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Interview at "Loopy" at BBC (2002) http://bbc.adactio.com/cult/buffy/interviews/espenson2002/page6.shtml

“Today the percentage of female judges, college professors and detectives seen on television is a pretty good reflection of the actual world. (In the case of judges, I wouldn't be shocked to find out the number on television exceeds the number in real life — what is it about those black robes that makes us think ovaries?)
But merely thrusting more women into more prestigious on-screen jobs doesn't necessarily make the working world a better place for women. If you were to show people images of two real-life professionals, one a man, one a woman, and ask them to rate their competence knowing nothing but job and gender — I bet people still give the guys the edge.
It's not television's fault, exactly. But television can help fix the problem. Not by writing women into better professions, but by more accurately showing them as complex people contending with the sort of snide, generous, ambitious, incompetent, sad and hilarious co-workers who populate real workplaces.”

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How to Succeed at Vampire Slaying and Keep Your Soul (2005)

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