Joss Whedon Quotes

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.

What's plan b?' 'We all die now.' 'What's plan c?

Do you love me? What? Do you? I love you. I don't know if I trust you. Maybe you shouldn't do either. Maybe I'm the one who should decide!

'You think we're dancing?' 'That's all we've ever done.'

In the time of gods and monsters, what is the worth of a man?

Time for some thrillin' heroics.

It's not any huge secret that I'm an atheist.

We don't need heroes so much as recognizing ourselves as heroes.

I have a desperate longing to have a desperate longing

We need narrative; it feeds us in a particular way, and deconstructing it completely before you've actually experienced it, I think it leaves us unfed.

Never sit at a table you can’t walk away from.

Somebody once asked me if I have anything like faith, and I said I have faith in the narrative. I have a belief in a narrative that is bigger than me, that is alive and I trust will work itself out.

I write to give myself strength.

My visions of the future are always pretty much standard issue. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer and there are flying cars.

The greatest expression of rebellion is joy.

Writers are completely out of touch with reality.

I did my English A level in England, and we studied Shakespeare. I had great, great high school teachers, and we parsed the text within an inch of its life.

I think “Batman Begins” is certainly my favorite Batman movie I’ve seen.

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."

I can do web, comic books, macrame, art.

A writer is supposed to have anonymity.

I don't think I'm a celebrity. Maybe I'm a cult figure?

A great scientist is more open to a new idea than almost anybody.

You know, the thing that I do to waste time is think of things I want to make. That's how my mind is employed.

I don't have a particular ambition in any medium. I just want to keep telling stories. If somebody pays me, also good.

I love all genres. The only thing I get stymied by is the Family Drama. I don't necessarily know how to approach that.

I get recognized just often enough to keep my ego bouncing along, but not so much that I can't go places.

This voting thing is actually beautiful. Not just necessary - it's a wonderful thing and it makes you powerful. And we've forgotten that in the most negative [president's] campaign in history.

The only bitterness I had is: Where is the conversation on gender? That's been going on since there have been men and women, and still we're not hearing about what they're going through.

Paul Hollywood's "You're under baked" is even better than "You're fired."

I've become less cynical, which is appalling but kind of cool.

There is always backlash. Everything gets backlash.

I got a bunch of people together to talk about doing a lot and decided that I really want to throw my hand in and do as much as I can.

I've been a Hillary Clinton supporter for a long time and I know that is not actually a popular position.

I'm not great at fear. I made the least frightening vampire show ever on TV. I'm pretty much good at heroic narratives and making people laugh, and that's pretty much it.

[Donald Trump] thinks in tiny little bursts - the way he tweets.

In production, in the first couple of weeks of production, that it was more like making an internet musical.

Women all live a double standard.

I love comics, very much, and I love being alone, but I also love the other part. I love actors, and I love filmed entertainment, and that is not something I plan to turn my back on.

I'm pretty much good at heroic narratives and making people laugh.

I wanted to drag Shakespeare from obscurity. I've been a fan my whole life.

There's some great reality TV, and I'm not bagging on it completely.

The thing with the comics is that you have license to go down every alley your brain can think of.

I think Hillary Clinton is vastly intelligent and good-hearted and extremely qualified.

To me, the most telling thing is we have a man [Donald Trump] who cannot complete a sentence.

The comic world has its own limitations, as everything does. I adore it, I respect it, but it's not going to take over all of me.

I'll always protect what I'm working on. Which is why more and more of it is stuff only I can ruin.

I've never watched reality shows, except for the Great British Bake Off, which is magnificent.

The Hulk is like a haiku; you've got to find just the right words. I think, and I hope, we did that with The Avengers.

I don't think I'm like Shakespeare.