Douglas Petrie

Doug (About having a gay character on Buffy the Vampire Slayer): Then the gay and lesbian community was very vocal about, "You must do this and you must not do that," and we're again kind of saying, "Listen, we're never going to be homophobic on this show but at the same time we are telling a story and we are storytellers, and we have the right to tell our story the way we want to." We don't want to be pressured from the left or the right to have people say "well for personal and political reasons you must do this with the story" or "you must do that for the story." But you know what? We're telling the story.

Doug: Joss came up with the idea that, everything we can't explain – "Blame it on Spike!". We all loved that! It was very satisfying and very funny. So that's kind of how we dealt with that. In general we do literally have a big whiteboard in Joss's office but not everything is written down. Joss Whedon's cranium is the resting place for a lot of the ideas.

Doug (About writing for both Buffy and Angel): Angel is a very cool world and a very different world but it is a pretty big gear shift and I think some of us are better at it than others - but it's a great place to visit.