TW: What did you learn from watching episodes of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer?"
Glass: Buffy is a really great show, and for people who loved it, they understand it. And for everybody else who didn't watch it, I think it's a real mystery why some of us hold it in such huge esteem. Buffy was very funny, and casually funny "¦ It had a bunch of characters that I really loved. Then just some really beautiful moments. There's this thing that Buffy says in one of the last couple of seasons, where they are up against something, like a force of pure evil, and she says this speech that's sort of a big, long, kind of faux Shakespearean speech. At some point, she says, "In all of this world, there's only one thing that's stronger than evil." Then she pauses and says, "That's us." And I remember I saw it, I had it on the TiVo. I just kept backing it up and watching that speech over, and over and over, just at the cleanness of the construction of the whole speech, which is building and building and building to that moment. It's funny, because when Obama started running for office, one of his big lines actually was: "We are the ones we have been waiting for," which I took as a kind of, I'm sure he wasn't a big Buffy fan, but it always seemed to be a reminder. No, he wasn't quite as eloquent as Buffy in his phrasing of it. And, you know, he's a guy who's known for some decent eloquence, and even he couldn't beat the construction that Joss Whedon had given Buffy for that line.
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