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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It's not any huge secret that I'm an atheist.

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There are two things that I cannot resist: one is musicals and the other is a spaceship in trouble. But I am smart enough not to combine the two things.

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Everybody who labels themselves a 'nerd' isn't some giant person locked in a cubbyhole who's never seen the opposite sex. Especially with the way the Internet is now, I think that definition is getting a little more diffuse.

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I had older brothers, and I don't think there's anything worse than an older brother. They pretty much told me the end of everything they got to see before I did.

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I don't write just to be clever. But sometimes I do. And if you don't have an understanding of the language, then the way in which it's bent doesn't actually register. It's the old you-gotta-paint-like-them-before-you-can-paint-like-you thing.

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Everything I write tends to turn into a superhero team, even if I didn't mean for it to. I always start off wanting to be solitary, because a) it's simpler, and b) that isolation is something that I relate to as a storyteller. And then no matter what...

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On one level, I must never lose touch with my audience. But I must, at some point, stop trying to get everybody to like me, and be true to the thing I think I need to say.

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That title, is one of the things I fought for. A lot of people said 'But it's stupid, and it's the title of a comedy movie, and people won't take it seriously,' and I'm sure there are some people who still don't. But for the most part, people do see ...

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I think it's always important for academics to study popular culture, even if the thing they are studying is idiotic. If it's successful or made a dent in culture, then it is worthy of study to find out why.

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Every vampire fiction reinvents vampires to its own needs. You take what you want.

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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 lowered SAT scores.

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Writers are completely out of touch with reality.

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'Buffy' is about growing up. 'Angel' is really about already having grown up, dealing with what you've done, and redemption.

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TV's like whitewater rafting: Without rocks, there wouldn't be rapids, and it wouldn't be as much fun.

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My favorite part of Comic-Con? The groupies.

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Those of us who write spend our entire lives in an endless English class.

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I've often said there's no such thing as a track record in TV. I seen people who created things much more successful than mine treated like dirt.

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I'll always protect what I'm working on. Which is why more and more of it is stuff only I can ruin.

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I don't want the giant ego. I don't want to become Kevin Costner, singing on the soundtrack to The Postman.

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I get recognized just often enough to keep my ego bouncing along, but not so much that I can't go places.

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I've never met a well-adjusted person. It's weird.

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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