The Importance of Working Hard

When Gilmore came on, the WB didn't quite know what to do with it because it didn't quite fit the Dawson's Creek thing. It wasn't Superman and it wasn't Buffy. They really wanted them young. There was something about just being able to write something that was purely like whatever I wanted to do. We took our own little vacuum over the backlot of Burbank where we walked around those girls in circles for five years. And then finally I said, look, you guys, you can fire me. You two can commiserate a lovely conversation. Or you can never call me again, because what I can't do is be abused. Never bother me if you don