Jane Espenson

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1964 age 0

   Born

• JWJoss Whedon2 titles
• DSDavid Solomon2 titles
• GDGareth Davies2 titles
• JCJames A. Contner2 titles
• BWBrian Wankum2 titles
• GMGeorge R. R. Martin1 title
• DBDavid Benioff1 title
• DWD. B. Weiss1 title
• BCBryan Cogman1 title
• VTVanessa Taylor1 title

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

  Jane Espenson, CC BY-SA 4.0

• 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.

  Jane Espenson, CC BY-SA 4.0

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

  Jane Espenson, CC BY-SA 4.0

• 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?

  Jane Espenson, CC BY-SA 4.0

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

  Jane Espenson, CC BY-SA 4.0

• 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.

  Jane Espenson, CC BY-SA 4.0