Joss Whedon Quotes

(last words) Don't worry, Captain Hammer will save us.

Don't just be yourself. Be all of your selves.

Let's put it this way: If a raccoon can carry a movie, then they believe maybe even a woman can.

He's like Super Librarian, y'know? Everyone forgets, Willow, that knowledge is the ultimate weapon.

I'm not big on regret; I don't spend a lot of time on it.

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

There are some things I can just smell. It's like a sixth sense." "Well, actually, that would be one of the five.

I'm not a leader now. I'm a whole damn army.

So, why do you write these strong female characters?
Because you're still asking me that question.
[Equality Now speech, May 15, 2006]

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.

Buffy loves Angel. He loves her. And I love Ho Hos.

Angelus: Now that's everything, huh? No weapons ... No friends ... No hope. Take all that away ... and what's left? Buffy: Me.

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

The hardest thing in this world, is to live in it.

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.

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.

I like Victorian children's novels extremely a lot. If I would say I collect anything, that's what I'll hunt for now and again at old book stores.

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!

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.

I've often said there's no such thing as a track record in TV. I seen people who created things much more successful than mine treated like dirt.

I'm totally cool. I'm totally calm, and I'm totally cool. My calm is exceeded only by my cool. Which is total. Here we go.

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

If you can't run, you crawl. If you can't crawl
you find someone to carry you.

What you cut out becomes part of the story you tell.

You don't buy a Picasso because you love the frame.

I'll take crazy over stupid any day.

I was very proud of my father, and I admired him, but I always thought he was more interesting than the shows he was working on.

There's a fine line between support and stalking and let's all stay on the right side of that.

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.

Xander, don't speak Latin in front of the books.

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

Always be yourself... unless you suck.

The stupidest person in the room might have the best idea.

I'd rather make a show 100 people need to see, than a show that 1000 people want to see.

Beautiful revelations of power are often written by the guy who got kicked around and didn't have any power.

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

I really like beer.

I am the immaculate embodiment of worlds.

Remember to always be yourself.

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

Be brave. Live. -Buffy

Forgiveness is like a great act of compassion. That it was done not because someone deserved it, but because they needed it.

As we all know, blinking lights means science.

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

Obsession is beautiful. It's what makes art.

"'Come on, guys, I'm the leader of a whole movie ... !' I tell when I want people to fear and respect me. Not wildly effective."

Every vampire fiction reinvents vampires to its own needs. You take what you want.

I was a little bit ashamed of American TV because I thought, 'None of the shows my father works on are as funny as my father.'

I love a straightforward character. I am the guy who loves Cyclops on the 'X-Men', because he is square.

I write to be the characters that I am not.

Actors wait tables, directors work at video stores.

Everything is a drug. Family, art, causes, new shoes ... We're all just tweaking our chem to avoid the void.

Because obsession is the thing in us that makes us not everybody else.

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.

You learn something every time you make a mistake.

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

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.

Oddly enough, I never studied writing. I studied almost everything except writing.

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

To accept duality is to earn identity.

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.

You have a responsibility to listen to the dissent in yourself.

My life has included a study of Shakespeare and to me it's very natural, but I know that it's not always accessible to other people.

The secret to multitasking is that it isn't actually multitasking. It's just extreme focus and organization.

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

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

If nothing we do matters, then all that matters is what we do.

I've never met a well-adjusted person. It's weird.

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

You can either watch TV or you can make TV.

I always want to make sure I'm telling a story about people that I care about.

Okay. So...serious wedgie...

The musicals that I love on stage are generally meant for the stage.

I eat 'The Walking Dead' like its made of brains. Can't even watch the show, I love the book so much.

Something like 'Much Ado' happens, and even 'Avengers' happens because of the years of building connections and doing the work and proving yourself.

Angel, when I look into the future, all I see is you! All I want is you.
I know the feeling.

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

The news isn't there to tell you what happened. It's there to tell you what it wants you to hear or what it thinks you want to hear.

The thing about changing the world ... Once you do it, the world's all different.

Every day's a negotiation and sometimes it's done with guns.

You get hurt, hurt 'em back. You get killed, walk it off.

Casting is storytelling.

I don't believe in creating exclusionary art.

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

The rules are very important in a horror movie.

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,

It's not enough to bash in heads. You've got to bash in minds.

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

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

I'm sorry. But it's like you said, Emma ... I don't have any claws.

I like horror; I like comedy; I like drama; I like action; I like female heroes.

Shiny, let's be bad guys!

There's a lot of anger in the Twitter-verse, as I've discovered. But there's a lot of love.

That all you got...Bub?

I have a desperate longing to have a desperate longing

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

I have a pathological fear of confrontation. I'm working on that.

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

Half of writing history is hiding the truth.

I'm very much more interested in the created family than I am in actual families.