How David came to work with Joss
At that time Joss hadn’t really done a lot of television, he’d done a few things like Roseanne and Parenthood and done some marvellous big movies like Toy Story. He was a wonderful writer, but they were looking for someone to quote unquote "come in and help him run the show".
They were hoping that a marriage might be had there. And it was kind of love at first sight I have to say, in a very gay way too (laughs), because I’d never met anyone quite as driven, quite as talented, quite as ambitious - in the good sense of the word - and quite as gracious as Joss. We decided we’d give it a try.
I signed on for the first 12 Buffys and I just really fell in love with the way he worked and with the characters. When you’re a movie writer you usually come to one hour drama on television as opposed to, what has been historically, half hour comedy. All my movies were always funny and always juxtaposed tragic and funny things together and Joss just does so much juxtaposition. That’s one of the many great things he does. He also taught me that you can earn real sentiment without being sentimental, but you have to earn the emotion.
I fell in love with working with him, the show, and the characters. My original deal was that I was supposed to help get this little show started and go into a bigger other show. When my time was up, I said "Oh please let me be with you, let me do this" so we worked together many, many years.
