Tell us how you became aware of Buffy?

My name�s David Greenwalt and I was Joss�s right hand man on Buffy and then Joss and I created the spin off Angel together.

I was a movie writer in the 1980s. I wrote Secret Admirer, American Dreamer and Class with a fellow named Jim Calph, who�s a very talented movie writer. He went on to write Stake Out - unfortunately I didn�t team with him on the hit.

Eventually, like many of my colleagues, I began to dabble in television because it was fun and it was immediate. Before I knew it I fell in love with television, particularly because in American television the writer is king. You have a lot of control over your work if you become a producer as well at the same time.

I had done a very short live show called Profit that starred Adrian Pasdar, about a man who was somewhat psychotic and lived in a box, but also worked at a very wealthy corporation and manipulated people. That was wonderful fun, what�s the expression, outside the box? It lasted about four minutes but the show got me a lot of attention in town, the town being Hollywood.

It was about 1996 and I read every pilot that was out there and had the opportunity to meet all the big producers. And from my big stack of pilots I said, "This funny thing called Buffy The Vampire Slayer, this is the best written pilot, not only this year but probably one of the best written pieces of work I�ve ever read. How could a thing with a funny, odd little below-the-radar title like that be such a great piece? I have to meet this guy, I have to find out what this is about". So I met with Joss.