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...JW: But ultimately I prefer this, just because . . . well, it's not as though I'm only trying to reach one tiny segment of people when I write. It's not like I want to have the clubhouse with the No Girls sign. I appreciate the people who are stepping into genre a little bit because they realize there's more there. For me, ultimately, even though I miss my twenty minutes of actually being cool and marginalized, I think it's more gratifying ultimately to be in this world...
...JW: But it's funny, I keep having to remember that. I always say, I will never do anything that's not genre. People go, well, what about Roseanne? I'm like, yeah, okay, but . . . That to me was genre because it was a sitcom with real people in it which, to me, was at that point a fantasy. I always tend to think just left of center, to remove myself from the world by one step. It is very freeing, and it's a particular way of coming at stories and looking at them that I find the most...
...JW: That's a difficult thing to explain in this country, particularly to a ratings board. If you're doing something that's layered at all, that anybody who's old enough to understand it can and should, and anybody else won't, they'll connect to it on a different level. Things get very codified, very black and white. It's tough...
...JW: I've got some violence and I think I have sexual innuendo. In one sentence, somebody says something vaguely naughty. I was excited to see how I was going to be pegged...
...JW: This is a mythos I grew up with. I never tire of the heroes that I knew growing up. The fun is not that much different from doing a television show: You're stuck with a certain set of rules and then, rather than trying to break them, it's just trying to peel away and see what's underneath them. That to me is really...