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About Quotes by Joss Whedon
- Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there.
- The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn't look like there's a light at the end of the tunnel, he's going to keep…
- I hate it when people talk about Buffy as being campy... I hate camp, I don't enjoy dumb TV. I believe Aaron Spelling has single-handedly…
- There was a time before I felt I was a real writer, when I was a yarn spinner and I just wanted to tell story…
- I also don't trust Caribou anymore. They're out there, on the tundra, waiting... Something's going down. I'm right about this.
- What I love most about icons is finding out what's behind them, exploring the price of their power.
- I always enjoy conversation more if there is some substance to it - which is a just incredibly hilarious thing for me to say because…
- I designed 'Buffy' to be an icon, to be an emotional experience, to be loved in a way that other shows can't be loved. Because…
- I do listen to music. Movie scores, exclusively, because it's all about mood and nonspecificity. I love the way modern movie scoring is all about…
- I'm never interested in movies where you don't care about the people you're watching, and that's my biggest quibble about horror, that kids have gotten…
- 'The Dark Knight,' for me, has the same problem that every other 'Batman' movie has. It's not about Batman. I think Heath Ledger is just…
- What 'Scream' was great at was presenting ironic detachment and then making you actually care about the people that were having it, and juxtaposing it…
- Ultimately what I end up writing about is helplessness and the flipside of that, empowerment.
- All of the most important lessons about writing I learned from my father. He never set out to teach me anything, it would just be…
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- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle
- I'm going to insult a whole industry here, but it seems like TV is for people who can't do film. I'm not… — Kevyn Aucoin
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster
- There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads. — Paul Auster
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