Top 100 Quotes About Joss Whedon
#1. Try taking a stand on just one leg. You need to see both sides.
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#2. I'm never interested in movies where you don't care about the people you're watching, and that's my biggest quibble about horror, that kids have gotten stupider and stupider.
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#3. I can do web, comic books, macrame, art.
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#4. I'm pissed like this rutting beast can't conceive - I'm a lifetime of pissed, of strong, of muscle built over bruise, I'm slick with power and feel the fight as it changes ...
As it flows ...
... Everything into place, perfect, and I finally do what I was born to do.
I slay.
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#5. I think there's a possibility that comic book movies are getting a tiny bit better on the one hand because they're no longer made by executives, who are, you know, ninety-year-old bald tailors with cigars, going, 'The kids love this!'
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#6. I am a great believer in found families and I'm not a great believer in blood.
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#7. I believe the only reality is how we treat each other. The morality comes from the absence of any grander scheme, not from the presence of any grander scheme.
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#8. Mal: We're still flying.
Simon: That's not much.
Mal: It's enough
- from Firefly
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#9. One of my favourite sorts of actors ... the rat actor. The rat actor knows his job and gets it done.
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#10. I'm the least confident person in so many ways. But I believed that if somebody gave me the chance to tell a story, I would tell a story [well enough] that the person who gave me the chance would get their money back.
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#11. Sarah Michelle Gellar's made some really good choices. She's had some bad breaks. She goes with the independent, interesting young filmmakers and then they get slammed, like 'Southland Tales.' I'm proud of what she's trying to do. It's hard.
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#12. As far as I am concerned, the first episode of Buffy was the beginning of my career. It was the first time I told a story from start to finish the way I wanted.
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#13. Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FRIKKIN' SHOW. I totally shoulda took the road that had all those people on it. Damn.
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#14. Recognizing power in another does not diminish your own.
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#15. You know, comics and movies, even if you take a comic and turn it into a movie, we can't all be Joss Whedon.
Kevin Smith
#16. Why do you write strong female characters?
Because you're still asking me that question.
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#17. I never tire of the heroes that I knew growing up.
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#18. I hate it when people talk about Buffy as being campy ... I hate camp, I don't enjoy dumb TV. I believe Aaron Spelling has single-handedly lowered SAT scores.
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#19. What's plan b?'
'We all die now.'
'What's plan c?
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#20. Are you all right?"
"Oh my god! I phased!"
"Are you all right?"
"Are you?"
"It was strange."
"I can't believe I phased just then! That's never ... it was totally your fault."
"I like to think so, yes."
"Tee hee.
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#21. All right, Emma. You brought me in. You made your move. Just like I knew you would. A nice move. Now it's my turn.
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#22. I don't want the giant ego. I don't want to become Kevin Costner, singing on the soundtrack to The Postman.
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#23. I describe television as feminine and movies as masculine, in the sense that television wants to examine a problem from all sides and talk about it for a long time, and movies just want to hit the climax and then maybe have a smoke.
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#24. My first Comic-Con was when I first met Joss Whedon: He introduced me to that world and I'd never been to a convention before that. He and a bunch of the 'Buffy' and 'Angel' writers were all going down in a big van and he invited me along.
Nathan Fillion
#25. Sometimes people are layered like that. There's something totally different underneath than what's on the surface. But sometimes, there's a third, even deeper level, and that one is the same as the top surface one. Like with pie.
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#26. Everything I write tends to turn into a superhero team, even if I didn't mean for it to. I always start off wanting to be solitary, because a) it's simpler, and b) that isolation is something that I relate to as a storyteller. And then no matter what, I always end up with a team.
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#27. To forgive is an act of compassion ... It's not done because people deserve it. It's done because they need it.
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#28. Who is to say who is the villain and who is the hero? Probably the dictionary.
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#29. Life's a show and we all play a part
And when the music starts
We open up our hearts
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#30. I never write anything without humor, just because I like humor, but at the same time, it is a way for anything fantastical to become relatable.
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#31. I wish more people would take the extraordinary talent they have and just let their id go because that's what we discovered. We discovered that the sillier we got, the more people believed that we were speaking from our hearts.
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#32. In my generation, there was a single girl given the strength and skill to fight the spread of darkness ... but in your generation, there are nearly two thousand with the powers of the slayer, and not all of them have chosen to use their newfound abilities conscientiously.
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#33. I think 'Batman Begins' is certainly my favorite Batman movie I've seen.
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#34. Always be yourself... unless you suck.
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#35. You get hurt, hurt 'em back. You get killed, walk it off.
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#36. In production, in the first couple of weeks of production, that it was more like making an internet musical.
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#37. How do you know your Colossus is the genuine article in the first place?
I read his mind.
I matched his DNA.
I smelled him.
I also did that.
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#38. I would love to give you a more in-depth coherent explanation of my view of the soul, and if I had one I would. The soul and my concept of it are as ephemeral as anybody's, and possibly more so.
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#39. Everything is a drug. Family, art, causes, new shoes ... We're all just tweaking our chem to avoid the void.
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#40. Sorry, kid. Whedon got it wrong. Stakes don't kill vampires, they just give us heartburn.
Brian K. Vaughan
#41. Buffy the Vampire Slayer showed the whole world, and an entire sprawling industry, that writing monsters and demons and end-of-the-world is not hack-work, it can challenge the best. Joss Whedon raised the bar for every writer - not just genre/niche writers, but every single one of us.
Russell T. Davies
#42. I don't have a ton of enemies. I get along with people pretty well when I'm not annoying them to death.
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#43. Good fantasy fiction: ... explores real human conditions through fantastic metaphors which universalize the characters' individual experiences to speak personally to us all.
Laura Resnick
#44. All worthy work is open to interpretations the author did not intend. Art isn't your pet
it's your kid. It grows up and talks back to you.
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#45. I'm a huge fan of 'Buffy,' 'Angel' and 'Doctor Who.' People like Joss Whedon, Russell T. Davies, and Steven Moffat are really amazing about making you feel like you had a complete meal and yet leaving you hungry for more.
Andrew Kreisberg
#46. There's no fuzzy middle ground. You either believe that women are people or you don't. It's that simple.
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#47. I'm a very gentle man, not unlike Gandhi.
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#48. I was never a games night guy, but at some point, social interaction starts to freak me out. So when there's a point, it's easier for me to see the people I love and hang out and try to have fun.
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#49. The only way to real mature love is to get past the tropes of what we consider 'romance.'
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#50. Buffy loves Angel. He loves her. And I love Ho Hos.
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#52. I'd been on 'Buffy' - that is an amazing community, the Joss Whedon fans.
Felicia Day
#53. This is a sad, sad reflection on our times, when people must feed off
the carcasses of beloved stories from their youths-just because they
can't think of an original idea of their own, like I did with my
Avengers idea that I made up myself
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#54. Forgiveness is like a great act of compassion. That it was done not because someone deserved it, but because they needed it.
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#55. You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.
Nathan Fillion
#56. We'll never make Firefly again, because that was a thing that existed and is now gone. And Serenity isn't Firefly, and whatever comes next won't be, either. But I would love to tell more stories of this universe and to hang out with these people on and off for the rest of my career.
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#57. What I love most about icons is finding out what's behind them, exploring the price of their power.
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#58. If I kill you, you'll be awake, you'll be facing me, and you'll be armed.
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#59. Joss Whedon and all the writers of 'Iron Man' and 'Thor' found a way to keep Coulson saying something that keeps you guessing. I'm really lucky because a lot of people play agents and don't get nearly as much fun stuff to do.
Clark Gregg
#60. The master plan does not have a master plan. Television ultimately finds itself, and after it finds itself, it finds itself changing.
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#62. I'm a science fiction geek from birth - that's just who I am.
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#63. This, children, is Kitty Pryde, who apparently feels the need to make a grand entrance.
I'm sorry. I was busy remembering to put all my clothes on.
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#64. I respect the rules of TV, the rules of keeping things commercial and interesting and pop-y and fun.
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#65. I didn't watch a lot of American television growing up. I just liked to read a lot and watch movies - movies, movies, and more movies. My family used to make fun of me because I'd like every movie I saw.
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#67. I am not a fan of referencing your own work when it's in a different universe than what you're doing. That, to me, is a wink at the audience, and winking isn't actually cool when you're not, like, 10.
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#68. I love to write. I love it. I mean there's nothin in the world I like better, and that includes sex, probably because I'm so very bad at it.
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#69. I leave the world in terrible turmoil. I come back, same turmoil. Nothing at all different. Well, outfits are a little different ...
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#70. I used to write chronologically when I started, from beginning to end. Eventually I went, 'That's absurd; my heart is in this one scene, therefore I must follow it.'
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#71. I'm a very hard-line, angry atheist. Yet I am fascinated by the concept of devotion.
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#72. Joss Whedon who created 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer,' 'Angel,' and all that ... he is a genius.
Christian Kane
#73. Everything I do in its essence is about helplessness. That's the story I want to tell all the time. It's the story I wanted to live - somebody who appears to be, or is, weak becoming stronger.
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#74. You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are.
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#75. I have abused language. I love it, and I abuse it ... I don't write just to be clever. But sometimes I do. And if you don't have an understanding of the language, then the way in which it's bent doesn't actually register.
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#76. I wanted to drag Shakespeare from obscurity. I've been a fan my whole life.
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#77. I loved working with 'The Avengers' cast and we had a great time, but it was a job, and they had other commitments during that job, so they would go off and do other things.
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#78. Redemption is something you have to fight for in a very personal, down-dirty way. Some of our characters lose that, some stray from that, and some regain it.
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#79. Sketchy: I'm no stranger to stoner logic.
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#80. My visions of the future are always pretty much standard issue. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer and there are flying cars.
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#81. I didn't study writing. I didn't write anything substantial until I got to California.
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#83. You are going to change the world, because that is actually what the world is. You do not pass through this life, it passes through you. You experience it, you interpret it, you act, and then it is different. That happens constantly. You are changing the world. You always have been.
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#84. The networks have a particular agenda, a particular model and structure. It doesn't have anything to do with content. This is not a dis on them - they are a business model, run by business people.
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#85. Every writer loves the idea of being able to go in and fix a problem and then leave without obligation. It's fun!
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#86. At last we've seen the first installment of Joss Whedon's new web series, 'Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog,' and it's sweeter than we'd ever imagined.
Annalee Newitz
#87. If something isn't working, if you have a story that you've built and it's blocked and you can't figure it out, take your favorite scene, or your very best idea or set-piece, and cut it. It's brutal, but sometimes inevitable.
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#88. I keep thinking they're gonna call me. I keep thinking they're gonna crunch the numbers and think, oh, we can make money with this! And they don't.
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#89. My deal with Marvel is I have a consulting deal with them as well as a contract to make 'Avengers.' That means I'll read all the scripts, I'll look at cuts.
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#90. I like to think that I'm a populist entertainer, but I'm a little bit idiosyncratic, and sometimes the networks wouldn't really roll with that.
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#91. So, why do you write these strong female characters?
Because you're still asking me that question.
[Equality Now speech, May 15, 2006]
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#92. I think it's not inaccurate to say that I had a perfectly happy childhood during which I was very unhappy.
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#93. People used to laugh that academics would study Disney movies. There's nothing more important for academics to study, because they shape the minds of our children possibly more than any single thing.
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#94. War is not just the business of death, it is the antitheses of life.
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#95. Because to me, there is no logic of any kind behind misogyny. Therefore, it's funny, because it's so completely random to me. It's senseless.
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#96. I have had a dream my whole life ... and it was not this good.
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#97. Lockheed! You found me! You are the best X-Dragon ever.
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#98. Psychic, though? That sounds like something out of science fiction. We live in a space ship, dear.
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#99. I'm well aware when they fired the starting gun I was halfway down the track, but I still ran as fast as I could for 25 years.
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#100. When I was a kid, maybe 11, I remember saying, 'When I grow up I wanna have enough money to buy a really cool car, because I won't.'
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