Sometimes people are layered like that. There's something totally different underneath than what's on the surface. But sometimes, there's a third, even… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
People always say I write a lot of pop culture references. Can somebody please count the pop culture references in 'Firefly?' Because… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
The Internet community started forming right when 'Buffy' started airing, and the notion of a show creator being anything other than a… — 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
I designed 'Buffy' to be an icon, to be an emotional experience, to be loved in a way that other shows can't… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
People want the tragedy. They need things to go wrong, they need the tension. In my characters there’s a core of trust… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
People used to laugh that academics would study Disney movies. There's nothing more important for academics to study, because they shape the… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
Directing is such alchemy, it's so easy to fail. And I've seen people who are great at their jobs because everybody has… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
There was a time before I felt I was a real writer, when I was a yarn spinner and I just wanted… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
My life has included a study of Shakespeare and to me it's very natural, but I know that it's not always accessible… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
TV does a thing that film can never do. It takes you to a place that no novel written after the late… — 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
Making 'The Avengers' was very important to me, but it was also extremely arduous. I missed my friends and I missed my… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
I got a bunch of people together to talk about doing a lot and decided that I really want to throw my… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
I loved teaching and I did a lot of work as a teacher's assistant in college, and my favorite experience was basically… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
I would like to have as much going on as other people do, but my problem is I get so attached to… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
We'll never make Firefly again, because that was a thing that existed and is now gone. And Serenity isn't Firefly, and whatever… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
What I didn't really understand, but then I thought this makes perfect sense, as well - was how many people responded to… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
I loved teaching and I did a lot of work as a teacher's assistant in college, and my favorite experience was basically… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
If I find out I have to write today and nothing else, that’s a perfect day. I know a lot of people… — 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 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
