Once More, With Feeling: Joss Whedon Revisits ‘Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog’

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/18/once-more-with-feeling-joss-whedon-revisits-dr-horribles-sing-along-blog/

"I have been alerted to this fact by certain of my friends. When I saw us going up against “Empire Strikes Back,” all I could think was, “Oh, they’re gonna hate it. They’re gonna hate us. They’re gonna call our fans names.” But while “Empire Strikes Back” is for me the more seminal film, “Serenity” at least has an ending. I don’t know when “The Matrix” got voted down – that’s my favorite. It is starting to be a double-edged sword. There’s no greater sadness than not still being on board that ship with that crew, in my career. All I can think is, maybe someday, someone at Universal will say, “Hey, we made money. Let’s do that again.” So I’m glad that it lives. But I also know that every time it gets in one of those polls, against beloved movies, we just get flamed. I feel sad, too."

Spidey Bites: Stan Lee’s Secret for Saving Spider-Man the Musical? More Stan Lee!

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/oscars/2011/03/spidey-bites.html

"It never occurred to us to save any of those things. We never thought they’d have any value later on. We worked in a very small office, and the printer would send back all the original pages of artwork, but we had no place to put them. So when we ordered food, we told the delivery guy, “Hey, would you mind taking these pages and dropping them in the trash on the way out?”"

Neil Gaiman Explains How Alan Moore Nicknamed Him “Neil ‘Scary Trousers’ Gaiman: Master of Modern Horror

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=337-ycZz6IM&feature=player_embedded

What it’s like to be a young writer working with Joss Whedon and Kevin Williamson

http://io9.com/#!5767405/what-its-like-to-be-a-young-writer-working-with-joss-whedon-and-kevin-williamson

"Okay, I lied when I said I could name the difference in one word. I'm going to use two more words right here – THE ROOM. And to be honest, this is the thing that makes writing under tight deadlines possible. There's nothing like working with a room full of talented writers to break story, find solutions to script problems, and often times split writing duties to get a script written quickly. When you're writing a spec script on your own, you have to do all these things by yourself – which is possible, but often takes much longer, involves banging your head against the wall a lot more, and is generally much lonelier."

Warren Ellis interview: RED, RED 2, Jonah Hex, Gravel, screenwriting and more

http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/772097/warren_ellis_interview_red_red_2_jonah_hex_gravel_screenwriting_and_more.html

"When Alan Moore started out, and was getting known in the 80s, pretty much the first thing he did when he got the opportunity, is he set up a column in one of the British comics he was working on, The Daredevils at Marvel UK, where he could review fanzines and things.

Reading that as a kid, I kind of got the impression that that was part of the job. How once your profile got to the point where people actually paid attention to what you were saying, you should use that to direct their attention to things that are worth knowing about, by people who don't have that profile yet. I got the sense that that was what you did.

So, once my profile got to that point, that's what I did. And it didn't dawn on me till later that not everybody does that. And I was never interested in just limiting it to comics, because I'm interested in more things than just comics."