How did your interest in writing develop?

I started in school. My dad was a documentary film maker - he does documentaries for National Geographic.

I quickly figured out that I wanted to do something similar, but I wanted to manipulate reality rather than wait for things to happen.

In school I was into drama and all that kind of stuff. When I got out, I started working as an assistant and wrote a lot of spec material. Actually, I was working as a secretary and writing plays when I got Buffy. I had sold one other thing and I was writing a lot of spec features and stuff like that, so Buffy�s my first big gig. I got very lucky.