Joss Whedon + Crafts = Awesome

Take two really awesome things, Joss Whedon and arts/crafts. Combine them and what do you get? This interview with Joss Whedon about crafts and the roles they play in his series.

Some highlights?

"I'm aware of the desperate rivalry between the knitters and the crocheters. And, you know, first of all I have to say: can't there be peace? ... It's an age-old war. Like the werewolves and the vampires. I think Underworld was actually originally about crocheters and knitters but they thought it would be too controversial so they changed it to vampires and werewolves."

"I'm crafty in the sense that I'm duplicitous and evil."

"My whole thought was that Jayne was your classic bad-guy mercenary type, and I thought this is the one guy who does not have a tortured past, who has a decent, hard-working family, who just, you know, this was his career choice and the idea of him getting a letter from mom that he struggles to read, and the knitted hat, was— it just felt so right. It felt very, very him and very human and then of course I saw the hat with its flaps and its pom pom, and I just couldn't have been happier."

"Obviously decoupaging is too racy for Fox. So, I mean, they couldn't allow that."

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