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Joss Whedon points out that people often claim a fuzzy middle ground on sexism, but he says there isn’t one. He says he cares most about stories that focus on characters he cares about. He also encourages people to let their extraordinary talent run free.

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

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You can't just throw people at all your problems, dear.

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I cannot abide useless people.

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People only respond to fear.

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

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People with real power never fear of losing it. People with control think of little else.

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Horror movies don't exist unless you go and see them, and people always will.

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

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You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are.

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I respect television in a way that some people who came out of film might not.

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You either believe women are people or you don't. It's that simple.

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I don't want to create responsible shows with lawyers in them. I want to invade people's dreams.

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

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The networks have a particular agenda, a particular model and structure. It doesn't have anything to do with content. This is not…

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

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The Internet community started forming right when 'Buffy' started airing, and the notion of a show creator being anything other than a…

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People used to laugh that academics would study Disney movies. There's nothing more important for academics to study, because they shape the…

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My dad would go to work every day and write in a room full of funny people. He enjoyed it. I know…

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I got a bunch of people together to talk about doing a lot and decided that I really want to throw my…

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Unfortunately for Hillary Clinton she's a competent politician, which means she seldom says anything in less than three paragraphs. So people like…

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People feel removed from sexism. 'I'm not a sexist, but I'm not a feminist.' They think there's this fuzzy middle ground. There's…

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That title, is one of the things I fought for. A lot of people said 'But it's stupid, and it's the title…

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What 'Scream' was great at was presenting ironic detachment and then making you actually care about the people that were having it,…

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Writers are completely out of touch with reality. Writers are a crazy person. We create conflict - for a living. We do…

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My first gig ever was writing looplines for a movie that had already been made. You know, writing lines over somebody's back…

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Making 'The Avengers' was very important to me, but it was also extremely arduous. I missed my friends and I missed my…

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The way a musical can make us feel is unlike anything else, in song and particularly in dance. I think people fly…

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My people - before I was changed - they exchanged this as a sign of devotion. It's a Claddagh ring. The hands…

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What I didn't really understand, but then I thought this makes perfect sense, as well - was how many people responded to…

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I've seen [Donald Trump] appear in a film or a TV show cameo or the tabloids, and he's a grotesquely distasteful human…

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When people say to me, 'Why are you so good at writing at women?' I say, 'Why isn't everybody?' Obviously there are…

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At the end of the day I have many answers for it. It has to do with my mom, who was an…

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It was only when I got to college that I realized that the rest of the world didn't run the way my…

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Basically that you can do anything. If you pool your resources,and just give up the idea that you're going to act like…

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When people say to me, 'Why are you so good at writing at women?' I say, 'Why isn't everybody?'

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Don’t give people what they want, give them what they need.

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I don't have a ton of enemies. I get along with people pretty well when I'm not annoying them to death.

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

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

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The fact is some people really love my work, some people not so much, but at the end of the day, I…

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Even in the darkness, every color can be found. And every day of rain brings water flowing to things growing in the ground.

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

I always watch what I say. I am what I say.

Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.

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

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