大象传媒

Can you explain what an Executive Producer does? Are you the day-to-day glue that holds things together?

I actually like to think of myself as the gum, I’m more like the gum under your shoe that sorts of sticks things together. Basically, when Joss is not around I now oversee all of the production, I oversee most of the stuff that goes on on set, and I work with the writers and try to break the stories.

I just do basically everything that [Joss] would try to do while he was here, except with about three quarters of the genius. But, and I have said this before, I spend a lot of time just thinking, "What would Joss do?" There’s a story about Billy Wilder. His mentor was a director names Lubich and he had a sign up in his office which said "What would Lubich do?" So, in Joss’s absence, I basically have a sign up in my office which says, "What would Whedon do?" and I try to think like him and do like him.

We have an incredible group of writers now, and all of them are also involved in production and editing and all of the many facets of the show. So, in his absence, we all fall into line and do our jobs, and when he’s around I still do some more than I used to do but it’s still his toy so... I haven’t taken the key.