Joss Whedon Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.