When I created Buffy, I wanted to create a female icon, but I also wanted to be very careful to surround her… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
The first thing I ever thought of when I thought of Buffy , the movie, was the little...blonde girl who goes into… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
If I wrote what I really think, I would be so sad all the time. We create to fill a gap -… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
If you have a good idea, get it out there. For every idea I’ve realized, I have ten I sat on for… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
Anything can be good. Even Last Action Hero could’ve been good. There’s an idea somewhere in almost any movie : if you… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
It seemed to be a fundamental thing that women have something men don't, the obvious being an ability to bear children, and… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
Basically that you can do anything. If you pool your resources,and just give up the idea that you're going to act like… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
I don't understand why or how anyone ever pulled off the whole idea of 'women are inferior.' — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
This is a sad, sad reflection on our times, when people must feed off the carcasses of beloved stories from their youths-just… — 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
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
I loved the idea of a girl going into a dark alley, and a monster comes, and then she just aces him.… — 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 Image
Every vampire fiction reinvents vampires to its own needs. You take what you want. — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
When you're making a film, you have an obligation to fill the frame with life. — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image