![Joss Whedon quotes: So, why do you write these strong female characters?Because you're still asking me that question.[Equality Now speech, May 15, 2006]](http://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/joss-whedon-quotes-1355908.jpg "Joss Whedon quotes: So, why do you write these strong female characters?Because you're still asking me that question.[Equality Now speech, May 15, 2006]")
I don't believe in creating exclusionary art. 
Casting is storytelling. 
You get hurt, hurt 'em back. You get killed, walk it off. 
Every day's a negotiation and sometimes it's done with guns. 
The thing about changing the world ... Once you do it, the world's all different. 
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. 
There's no fuzzy middle ground. You either believe that women are people or you don't. It's that simple. 
If nothing we do matters, then all that matters is what we do. 
Something like 'Much Ado' happens, and even 'Avengers' happens because of the years of building connections and doing the work and proving yourself. 
I eat 'The Walking Dead' like its made of brains. Can't even watch the show, I love the book so much. 
The musicals that I love on stage are generally meant for the stage. 
Okay. So...serious wedgie... 
I always want to make sure I'm telling a story about people that I care about. 
You can either watch TV or you can make TV. 
I get recognized just often enough to keep my ego bouncing along, but not so much that I can't go places. 
I've never met a well-adjusted person. It's weird. 
Angel, when I look into the future, all I see is you! All I want is you.I know the feeling.
I'm very much more interested in the created family than I am in actual families. 
Half of writing history is hiding the truth. 
Try taking a stand on just one leg. You need to see both sides. 
I have a pathological fear of confrontation. I'm working on that. 
Lockheed! You found me! You are the best X-Dragon ever. 
I have a desperate longing to have a desperate longing 
That all you got...Bub? 
You think we're dancing?" "That's all we've ever done. 
Shiny, let's be bad guys! 
I like horror; I like comedy; I like drama; I like action; I like female heroes. 
I'm sorry. But it's like you said, Emma ... I don't have any claws. 
She's terse. I can be terse. Once, in flight school, I was laconic. 
In production, in the first couple of weeks of production, that it was more like making an internet musical. 
It's not enough to bash in heads. You've got to bash in minds. 
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, 
The rules are very important in a horror movie. 
There's a lot of anger in the Twitter-verse, as I've discovered. But there's a lot of love. 
Everything is a drug. Family, art, causes, new shoes ... We're all just tweaking our chem to avoid the void. 
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. 
What's plan b?''We all die now.'
'What's plan c?
Writing is the greatest thing that can happen to a human being. It's the best. 
Oddly enough, I never studied writing. I studied almost everything except writing. 
Most people don't see Hamlet as an old bald guy. 
The secret to multitasking is that it isn't actually multitasking. It's just extreme focus and organization. 
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. 
To accept duality is to earn identity. 
I love a straightforward character. I am the guy who loves Cyclops on the 'X-Men', because he is square. 
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. 
We don't need heroes so much as recognizing ourselves as heroes. 
You learn something every time you make a mistake. 
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. 
Because obsession is the thing in us that makes us not everybody else. 
Actors wait tables, directors work at video stores. 
I write to be the characters that I am not. 