Joss Whedon Quotes

I am not a fan of referencing your own work when it's in a different universe than what you're doing...

You're going to burn in a very special level of hell. A level they reserve for child molesters and p...

Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE.

If you can't run, you crawl. If you can't crawl-- you find someone to carry you.

Tonight sucks. And look at me. Look at - look at stupid Buffy. Too dumb for college, and-and-and fre...

All I ask is this: Do something. Try something. Speaking out, showing up, writing a letter, a check,...

War is not just the business of death, it is the antitheses of life.

Whedon: Studios will tell you: A woman cannot headline an action movie. After The Hunger Games they ...

Nowadays I’m really cranky about comics. Because most of them are just really, really poorly written...

TV does a thing that film can never do. It takes you to a place that no novel written after the late...

So, why do you write these strong female characters?Because you’re still asking me that ques

As we all know, blinking lights means science.

When you’re telling a story, you’re trying to connect to people in a particular way … The way in whi...

It's only recently women got to be action heroes on TV. Progress is slow, and often non-existent. Th...

Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there.

I just thought, ‘Wait a minute, if I’m going to start writing again, I have to go to the quiet place...

My people - before I was changed - they exchanged this as a sign of devotion. It's a Claddagh ring. ...

Humor keeps us alive. Humor and food. Don't forget food. You can go a week without laughing.

When I was a kid, maybe 11, I remember saying, 'When I grow up I wanna have enough money to buy a re...

I was not popular in school, and I was definitely not a ladies' man. And I had a very painful adoles...

Do you love me?What?Do you?I love you. I don't know if I trust you.Maybe you shouldn't do either.May...

If you can't do something smart, do something right.

It may not feel too classy, begging just to eat But you know who does that?Lassie, and she always ge...

Back in my day, which was about a week and a half ago, we took our lumps and we got back up and we c...

It is the most fun I’m ever going to have. I love to write. I love it. I mean, there’s nothing in th...

The thing about changing the world... Once you do it, the world's all different.

In my generation, there was a single girl given the strength and skill to fight the spread of darkne...

Everyone has their first date and the object is to hide your flaws. And then you're in a relationshi...

The news isn't there to tell you what happened. It's there to tell you what it wants you to hear or ...

Very occasionally, if you pay really close attention, life doesn't suck.

Equality is not a concept. It's not something we should be striving for. It's a necessity. Equality ...

It was only when I got to college that I realized that the rest of the world didn't run the way my w...

I designed 'Buffy' to be an icon, to be an emotional experience, to be loved in a way that other sho...

Wanna know what a bullet feels like, Warren? A real one? It’s not like in the comics…I think you nee...

There’s a fine line between support and stalking and let’s all stay on the right side of that.

The times are chaotic. For me, I would hope that people look at [Angel] and gain strength by it. Wit...

Misogyny… is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of balance and that imbalance is...

Why do you write strong female characters?Because you're still asking me that question.

Because it’s no longer enough to be a decent person. It’s no longer enough to shake our heads and ma...

The first lesson a watcher learns is to separate truth from illusion. Because in the world of magick...

Everything I do is going to contain the message that men who are going to be comfortable with powerf...

Something can be very funny and then suddenly very terrifying-very exciting, and suddenly very ridic...

In every generation there is a chosen one. She alone will stand against the vampires the demons and ...

I walk. I talk. I shop. I sneeze. I'm gonna be a fireman when the floods roll back. There's trees in...

River Tam (Summer Glau): No power in the 'verse can stop me.

You either have to write or you shouldn't be writing. That's all.

I hope I’m being clear, I didn’t say I hate feminists, that would be weird. I said I hate feminist. ...

When Roseanne read the first script of mine that got into her hands without being edited by someone ...

When people say to me, 'Why are you so good at writing at women?' I say, 'Why isn't everybody?' Obvi...

The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn't look like there's a light at the end of the tunnel, ...

Ain't all buttons and charts, little albatross. Know what the first rule of flying is? Well I s'pose...

Shiny, let's be bad guys!

At the end of the day I have many answers for it. It has to do with my mom, who was an extraordinary...

To forgive is an act of compassion... It's not done because people deserve it. It's done because the...

Wherever I was, I was happy. At peace. I knew that everyone I cared about was all right. I knew it. ...

There's a lot of anger in the Twitter-verse, as I've discovered. But there's a lot of love.

Ultron: Stark asked for a savior, and settled for a slave.The Vision: I suppose we're both disappoin...

I'll take crazy over stupid any day.

I kept telling my mom that reading comic books would pay off.

Next year, Equality Now will celebrate - if that’s the word - will clock its twentieth year. Two dec...

Everything I do in its essence is about helplessness. That's the story I want to tell all the time. ...

There's a time and place for everything, and I believe it’s called 'fan fiction'.

I also felt that Ron and Hermione would have gotten divorced. I'm sorry, I just do. The end of Harry...

I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all ...

I never write anything without humor, just because I like humor, but at the same time, it is a way f...

He's like Super Librarian, y'know? Everyone forgets, Willow, that knowledge is the ultimate weapon.

I always was an early-morning or late-night writer. Early morning was my favorite; late night was be...

Don’t give people what they want, give them what they need.

Why aren’t you asking a hundred other guys why they don’t write strong women characters? I believe t...

You can't take the sky from me.

Why anybody gets my sense of humor I never know, but I do know that when they do, I keep them as clo...

Sadly, I hate foreigners. And Americans. And animals. And flora, and some fauna. Also the magma that...

Bottom line is, even if you see 'em coming, you're not ready for the big moments. No one asks for th...

You know, I always was an early morning or late night writer. Early morning was my favorite; late ni...

I'd rather make a show 100 people need to see, than a show that 1000 people want to see.

Recognizing power in another does not diminish your own.

Every day's a negotiation and sometimes it's done with guns.

If you're going to make a science fiction movie, then have a hover craft chase, for God's sake.

Faith in God means believing absolutely in something with no proof whatsoever. Faith in humanity mea...

I loved teaching and I did a lot of work as a teacher's assistant in college, and my favorite experi...

The enemy of humanism is not faith; the enemy of humanism is hate, is fear, is ignorance, is the dar...

Well, I guess I kinda worked it out. If there's no great glorious end to all this, if nothing we do ...

All worthy work is open to interpretations the author did not intend. Art isn't your pet -- it's you...

That girl will rain destruction down on you and your ship. She is an albatross, Captain. Way I remem...

Two things that matter to me. Emotional resonance and rocket launchers.

Everything we do really is just a little marker on the long road to death. And sometimes that’s over...

Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.

My mom is a teacher, my dad was a writer for television, his dad was a writer for television, and co...

If every vampire who said he was at The Crucifixion, was actually there, it would have been like Woo...

Anything can be good. Even Last Action Hero could’ve been good. There’s an idea somewhere in almost ...

There was this other apocalypse this one time. And, well, I took off. But this time, I don't... I do...

Seven years, Dawn. Working with the Slayer. Seeing my friends get more and more powerful... a witch....

Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.

She's terse. I can be terse. Once, in flight school, I was laconic.

The English Language is my bitch. Or I don't speak it very well. Whatever.

I go to movies expecting to have a whole experience. If I want a movie that doesn't end, I'll go to ...

People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. An...

There's no fuzzy middle ground. You either believe that women are people or you don't. It's that sim...

You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FRIKKIN' SH...

Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women.