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
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
I'm the least confident person in so many ways. But I believed that if somebody gave me the chance to tell a… — 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 write for fanboy moments. I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I… — 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
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
You go to movies to see people you love suffer - that's why you go to the movies. You don't go to… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will… — 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 love to write. I love it. I mean there's nothin in the world I like better, and that includes sex, probably… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
I didn't study writing. I didn't write anything substantial until I got to California. — 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
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
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
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
Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke. — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
If somebody comes up to me, it's because they're moved by something I'm moved by. I've never taken a job I didn't… — 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
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 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