Joss Whedon Quotes

I've seen [Trump] appear in a film or a TV show cameo or the tabloids, and he's a grotesquely distasteful human being and always has been, always made me want to take a shower.

Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE.

You're going to burn in a very special level of hell. A level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater.

Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.

Cordelia: I personally don't think it's possible to come up with a crazier plan.Oz: We attack the Mayor with hummus.Cordelia: I stand corrected.Oz: Just keeping things in perspective.

If every vampire who said he was at The Crucifixion, was actually there, it would have been like Woodstock . . .

I walk. I talk. I shop. I sneeze. I'm gonna be a fireman when the floods roll back. There's trees in the desert since you moved out, and I don't sleep on a bed of bones.

Spike: Bloody hell, woman, you're cutting off my circulation!Buffy: You don't have any circulation.Spike: Well, it pinches

Why do you write strong female characters?Because you're still asking me that question.

There's no fuzzy middle ground. You either believe that women are people or you don't. It's that simple.

To forgive is an act of compassion... It's not done because people deserve it. It's done because they need it.

Something can be very funny and then suddenly very terrifying-very exciting, and suddenly very ridiculous. I think that’s what life is like, that’s what interests me.

So, why do you write these strong female characters?Because you’re still asking me that ques

River Tam (Summer Glau): No power in the 'verse can stop me.

She's terse. I can be terse. Once, in flight school, I was laconic.

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.

Misogyny… is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of balance and that imbalance is sucking something out of the soul of every man and woman who is confronted with it.

According to Joss [Whedon], “TV is a question, movies are an answer.

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!

The first lesson a watcher learns is to separate truth from illusion. Because in the world of magicks, it's the hardest thing to do.

Why anybody gets my sense of humor I never know, but I do know that when they do, I keep them as close as I possibly can.

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.

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.'

My mom is a teacher, my dad was a writer for television, his dad was a writer for television, and combining those two has been sort of the goal of my life.

Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women.

TV does a thing that film can never do. It takes you to a place that no novel written after the late 19th century can. You can just go through people's lives it's like a marriage.

I kept telling my mom that reading comic books would pay off.

I love a good romantic comedy.

My dad would go to work every day and write in a room full of funny people. He enjoyed it. I know great writers who find the process agonising but to me, writing has always been sheer joy.