Transcript (Anthony Head section only):
- Basically, I'm Buffy's Watcher. The basic premise is that we have an American high school girl who is told in her teens that she is the only woman, the only girl in all the world of her generation who has been chosen to hunt and kill vampires. She's already had a bad experience with that. She burnt a school gym down. She's moved away from where she was in order to start life afresh and forget the fact that she's the Chosen One, the Slayer, and she pitches up at Sunnydale High School where I'm waiting for her. I am her Watcher, who is basically her mentor, the person who's been chosen to watch over her, to take care of her, to train her, to discipline her, to teach her, and she's not terribly happy with that. She really just wants to go out with guys, paint her fingernails, and go to the mall.

- The reason he's British is because it provides a nice foil for Buffy's very American attitudes. She's very teenage, so there's a total culture clash, total culture clash. I mean, she's talking in a language that my character doesn't understand. Even though we speak the same language, we don't speak the same language.

- Normally, Brits here get cast as either the bad guys or the complete fools. Giles is not a fool. He's deeply learned. One of the choices I made at the beginning was that, I've prepared for this for some time and there's been a lot of thought gone into it, but that I've had absolutely no practical experience. So that when we actually first get into the fray, it's a bit of a shock and there's a fair amount of [...] to be had from that.

- It's the first time that anyone's proven that you can have real humour, wit, dry humour, and then at the same time have tragedy, real tragedy, and thrills, and horror. Normally, is comedy and horror get together, it's a spoof. It's the only way people really have ever dealt with it before. And Joss set out from the beginning to say you can have all the emotions and they are heightened by the existence of the other emotions.

- ...she doesn't stop. Thankfully, she's young. She, uh, she doesn't stop. She's in it eight days out of eight days. Very rarely is she not on set. She does a lot of the physical stuff. She does have a stunt double but, uh, y'know, thank god, to be honest, 'cause, I mean, she'd be beaten to a pulp by now.

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