I thought it'd be funny if Spike fell in love with Buffy and she never reciprocated at all and she tortured him over it all the time, and he tried to be good, in a funny way, and he would fail. Every time. I thought, 'That, you could run with for years! That'd be great!' So Joss doesn't really take ideas from actors, he just goes, "mm-hmm" and that's it, which is good when you have a vision, but I used to work with a lot of writers before in theatre, and when they couldn't really"¦ "collaborate" with me, I would plant a seed, and then it could be their idea. So I just told him I had a little thing for Sarah"¦" (Cheers, laughter and applause) "And I said, 'I'll wait for about a year, and I bet it'll come out.' And it did. Unfortunately, he told Sarah"¦ She comes up to me on set, she's like, (adopting girly posture and accent), 'Don't even try to deny it! I know, Joss told me. You're in love with me.' So I'm new to the show, and I'm caught, because Sarah is hot, don't get me wrong, but I always saw her like my kid sister who drives me crazy, but I love her anyway, you know? And so I kind of lied, but I couldn't! I couldn't tell her, I couldn't expose that I'd lied to Joss about that when I planted the seed and I also didn't want to tell her, "Yeah, I like you" when I did not, because there's no way out of there. So I just sat there and stared at her. And I felt so bad! Years later, when I told Joss that I knew he'd told her that, he went (gasp, covering his mouth) 'I don't remember that! I don't remember that!' It was so like high school, I couldn't even tell you!"
