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

—  Jane Espenson

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

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