Running With My Eyes Closed

Check out LA Times’ interview with Whedon.

Here’s what he has to say about trying to get an Internet project going during the WGA strike:

At first I was just really working the problem because the strike was a very serious issue and one that I don’t feel we resolved adequately. I reached out to the people in Silicon Valley, like everyone else, and said, if you will finance something, I will put it together. I will shoot it tomorrow. I will make something so low-budget that will look so good. That deal still isn’t made. It took so long. But I wanted to get out there and create jobs and tell stories, and really explaining to people that there really is another way. Well, I found out that wasn’t it. And that ate up a lot of my time.

And on why he writes:

I write for fanboy moments. I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I’m afraid of. I write to do all the things the viewers want too. So the intensity of the fan response is enormously gratifying. It means I hit a nerve. “Dollhouse” might not. “Dollhouse” might make them go, “What else is on?”