Quotes by Joss Whedon

About Joss Whedon:

Joseph Hill is an American screenwriter, film and television director, film and television producer, comic book author and composer. He is the founder of Mutant Enemy Productions and co-founder of Bellwether Pictures, and is best known as the creator of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003), Angel (1999–2004), Firefly (2002), Dollhouse (2009–10) and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013–present). Whedon co-wrote Toy Story (1995), wrote and directed Serenity (2005), co-wrote and directed Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (2008), co-wrote and produced The Cabin in the Woods (2012), and wrote and directed The Avengers (2012) and its sequel Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015).
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Back in my day, which was about a week and a half ago, we took our lumps and we got back up and we cried like babies and quit and then put on weight.

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It's about women. It's about power and it's about women and you just hate those two words in the same sentence, don't you?

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

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In my generation, there was a single girl given the strength and skill to fight the spread of darkness...but in your generation, there are nearly two thousand with the powers of the slayer, and not all of them have chosen to use their newfound abilit...

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They hurt you. You hurt 'em back. Or maybe it is the other way around. Whatever. Someday you might find a way to forgive each other. But it won't be like it used to 'cause that pain never really goes away.

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I've seen plenty of films where the projector broke. The problems that we have in the digital age are exactly the same as we had. Instead of, 'There's a hair in the gate,' it's, 'The computer ate the footage.' There will always be things like that go...

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I spent a ton of time alone. I was raised by a feminist; I had a terrifying father and oppressively scary and mean brothers. We had a farm. The rule was between breakfast and lunch you weren't allowed to make a sound.

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

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I can do web, comic books, macrame, art.

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I don't believe in creating exclusionary art.

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

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Now there’s us, staking out our piece of cinematic turf (might be small but it’s ours). And the music has to fit the vision as specifically as it did for [Star Wars and The Matrix.] OUR music comes from THEIR music, this scrappled bunch. It is sp...

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

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'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 phenomenal and the character of the Joker is beautifully written. He has a particular philosophy that he carries ...

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Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.

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I'm a very hard-line, angry atheist. Yet I am fascinated by the concept of devotion.

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Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there.

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Always be yourself... unless you suck.

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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 digging, he's going to keep trying to do right and make up for what's gone before, just because that's who he is.

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Remember to always be yourself.

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Author Bio

  • NameJoss Whedon
  • DescriptionAmerican director, writer, and producer for television and film
  • BornJune 23, 1964
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionFilm Director; Screenwriter; Film Producer; Television Director; Composer; Writer
  • WorksSerenityverse; Buffyverse
  • AwardsDaytime Emmy Award; Prometheus Award - Special Award