I don't like characters who are either good or bad. I just don't experience that in life, so my writing hasn't evolved that way.

I really understand that we have to be sensitive to people's feelings and to their sensitivities, but you also can't be muzzled to tell a story.

I think women can relate to the feeling that we're internalizing too many demands, and we're trying to be good at everything, but one day, we're going to snap.

I think the science around mental illness is always evolving. There's always new kinds of thinking.

I'm a big believer in 'Trojan horses' - There are certain themes that are more palatable when wrapped in something fun or distracting.

I think there's a good-er divorce. I think that's absolutely possible. There's a better way to do it and everything in between, and then, of course, there's the disastrous way to do it.

We did have 'The Bronze', a very active website on 'Buffy' where we got a lot of feedback and post-game discussion. But now it's important to be engaged in the discussion while the show is airing and right after.

It's interesting because the first batch of really struggling with control and escape and all that happened when I was nearing adolescence, and the second one came with the onset of early menopause.

Sometimes I say working on a story in a writers' room is like saying the same word over and over and over again until it doesn't make sense anymore. Like, you say it until you don't know what you're saying.

Of all the mental illnesses, anorexia has the highest morbidity rate. It's serious.

A great thing, which I don't do enough, is to take a break from producing and try to just take stuff in, like go to the theater.

I can't be interesting, controversial, and the writer I'd like to be if I need everybody to like me and think I'm doing the right thing, because those two things, in my experience, never go hand in hand.

It's so politically incorrect to make a character gay and then make them 'un-gay' again. Like, once you become gay, you've crossed over, or you're not allowed to be a person who doesn't want to be defined by a label like that.

I've never had as much success as when I say to myself, 'I get that. I know what the feelings that that character would be going through would be like. I can feel a through line from beginning to end.'

I'll be honest: I had a real deep-seated fear that 'Buffy' was going to be my peak. It was such a beautiful experience. It was such a fully realized show.

Being the director - way fancier than 'just' being the writer. People call you 'talent.'

I bemoaned the pending loss of Obamacare/the Affordable Care Act.

With everything I do, I strive for a balance of tone, where it's not just one thing.

I've watched my fair share of 'Housewives.' And I just felt a little dirty afterwards.

The thing that can happen in a TV room is you can get 'teamthink': you can all go down a crazy path together.

You really can't quantify what 'Dietland' is.

If there's a theme to where I'm at in my life, it's that 'warts and all' is actually my superpower. Just like you, I'm messed up and I'm capable. I'm this and that.

The bane of every TV writer's existence is the likability note.

I always joke that I'm a feminist with a boob job.