Joss Whedon Quotes

If I wrote what I really think, I would be so sad all the time. We create to fill a gap - not just to avoid the idea of dying, it's to fill some particular gap in ourselves.

I'm working on 'Buffy: Deep Space Nine'. It will be dark and badly received.

I respect the rules of TV, the rules of keeping things commercial and interesting and pop-y and fun.

If you're someone who geniunally believes that women don't deserve or aren't as much as men, you're like the plague. On the big history chart, you're the plague....It's just pointless and deadly.

Lockheed! You found me! You are the best X-Dragon ever.

I don't want to create responsible shows with lawyers in them. I want to invade people's dreams.

I've been to two festivals in my life, and I've never been to Toronto. I haven't really been making festival movies. This is new territory for me.

Writing is the greatest thing that can happen to a human being. It's the best.

Can't stop the signal

Those of us who write spend our entire lives in an endless English class.

You can't be a storyteller and a speechwriter at the same time.

Time is what turns kittens into cats.

You are talking crazy-person talk. Put your words in word places please.

I leave the world in terrible turmoil. I come back, same turmoil. Nothing at all different. Well, outfits are a little different.

I am not made of steel. Rage. I...am made... of RAGE!!!!

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.

Every time somebody opens their mouth they have an opportunity to do one of two things - connect or divide.

Every time you work on a project, it's a little vacation from the project you're working on the other 23 hours. That's the thing - it replenishes you to do something else.

The world is scary, and things are overwhelming, and there's a lot at stake.

Men not only don't get what's important about what women are capable of, but in fact they fear it, and envy it, and want to throw stones at it, because it's the thing they can't have.

I generally think that Hillary Clinton is a good egg and a good politician.

Most people don't see Hamlet as an old bald guy.

The more power that we have, the less human we are.

Everybody who made it through adolescence is a hero.

Every subsection of liberalism is always busy attacking another subsection of liberalism, because god forbid they should all band together and actually fight for the cause.

Let freedom ring, unless it's on vibrate.

You can either watch TV or you can make TV.

I believe we are the only sentient beings in the universe, and I believe that 500 years from now, we will still be the only sentient beings around.

In other news, it's been far too long since I gloated massively about the fact that I know what's going to happen on Buffy and you all don't.

Ultimately what I end up writing about is helplessness and the flipside of that, empowerment.

I am the immaculate embodiment of worlds.

We had the camera locked, but not the location of the sun.

One of my favourite sorts of actors...the rat actor. The rat actor knows his job and gets it done.

I think it's not inaccurate to say that I had a perfectly happy childhood during which I was very unhappy.

I didn't know feminism was actually a thing until I left home and found out the country didn't run the way my mom's house did.

You go to movies to see people you love suffer - that's why you go to the movies. You don't go to see a movie about a guy who already knows he has a wonderful life.

It's very important that we start creating new content again. We can only build on nostalgia so much before we have nothing left to build on.

The rules are very important in a horror movie.

They can take everything away from me, but they can never take my pride, unless I somehow get some.

No one's going to go see the story of Othello going to get a peaceful divorce.

I set out in television with one simple goal: to purchase a Russian bride. Didn't work out. Immigration stuff - it's complicated.

I'm not a control freak - I'm a control enthusiast.

If I had created reality television I would have had a much greater influence, but then I would have had to KILL MYSELF.

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.

It's about women. It's about power and it's about women and you just hate those two words in the same sentence, don't you?

You can't just throw people at all your problems, dear.

Try taking a stand on just one leg. You need to see both sides.

Someone else's loss is my chocolatey goodness

Life's a show and we all play a part And when the music starts We open up our hearts

Sketchy: I'm no stranger to stoner logic.