I didn't study writing. I didn't write anything substantial until I got to California. — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
Ultimately what I end up writing about is helplessness and the flipside of that, empowerment. — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
Those of us who write spend our entire lives in an endless English class. — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
Writing is the greatest thing that can happen to a human being. It's the best. — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
Oddly enough, I never studied writing. I studied almost everything except writing. — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
It's very important that we start creating new content again. We can only build on nostalgia so much before we have nothing… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
My dad would go to work every day and write in a room full of funny people. He enjoyed it. I know… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
I do have screenplays I've written that never saw the light of day, but I don't usually go back to them. When… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
I used to write chronologically when I started, from beginning to end. Eventually I went, 'That's absurd; my heart is in this… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
All of the most important lessons about writing I learned from my father. He never set out to teach me anything, it… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
My mom is a teacher, my dad was a writer for television, his dad was a writer for television, and combining those… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
I never write anything without humor, just because I like humor, but at the same time, it is a way for anything… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
I usually write things in my head before I ever write them down. When I write it out, usually I've already figured… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
When Roseanne read the first script of mine that got into her hands without being edited by someone else she said, 'How… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
If something isn't working, if you have a story that you've built and it's blocked and you can't figure it out, take… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
Writers are completely out of touch with reality. Writers are a crazy person. We create conflict - for a living. We do… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
Everything I write tends to turn into a superhero team, even if I didn't mean for it to. I always start off… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
My first gig ever was writing looplines for a movie that had already been made. You know, writing lines over somebody's back… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
It is the most fun I’m ever going to have. I love to write. I love it. I mean, there’s nothing in… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
I've been in this business for a long while, but it's not like I've been waiting tables. Since I started writing, I've… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
I always was an early-morning or late-night writer. Early morning was my favorite; late night was because you had a deadline. And… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
All I ask is this: Do something. Try something. Speaking out, showing up, writing a letter, a check, a strongly worded e-mail.… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
Equality is not a concept. It's not something we should be striving for. It's a necessity. Equality is like gravity, we need… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
Everything has been for the [President] election for the last couple of months. Since the Democratic National Convention, it's been a dead… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
When people say to me, 'Why are you so good at writing at women?' I say, 'Why isn't everybody?' Obviously there are… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
At the end of the day I have many answers for it. It has to do with my mom, who was an… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke. — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
When people say to me, 'Why are you so good at writing at women?' I say, 'Why isn't everybody?' — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
Every writer loves the idea of being able to go in and fix a problem and then leave without obligation. It's fun! — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
I do remember what I said. The promise. To protect her. If I'd done that ... even if I didn't make it, you wouldn't've… — Joss Whedon Copy Share
Every vampire fiction reinvents vampires to its own needs. You take what you want. — Joss Whedon Copy Share
When you're making a film, you have an obligation to fill the frame with life. — Joss Whedon Copy Share
Everything we do really is just a little marker on the long road to death. And sometimes that’s overwhelmingly depressing to me, and sometimes… — Joss Whedon Copy Share
At the end of the day I have many answers for it. It has to do with my mom, who was an extraordinary woman,… — Joss Whedon Copy Share
“Why aren’t you asking a hundred other guys why they don’t write strong women characters? I believe that what I’m doing should not be… — Joss Whedon Copy Share
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 no fuzzy… — Joss Whedon Copy Share
Even in the darkness, every color can be found. And every day of rain brings water flowing to things growing in the ground. — Joss Whedon Copy Share
I never tire of the heroes that I knew growing up. The fun is not that much different from doing a television show: You're… — Joss Whedon Copy Share
“Xander: It could be witches, some evil witches, which is ridiculous cause witched they were persecuted, women power, love the eatrh, and I'll be… — Joss Whedon Copy Share
There's a lot of anger in the Twitter-verse, as I've discovered. But there's a lot of love. — Joss Whedon Copy Share
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