Joss Whedon Quotes

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Joss Whedon

Profession : Writer

Birth : June 23, 1964

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

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My life has included a study of Shakespeare and to me it's very natural, but I know that it's not always accessible to other people.

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I find that when you read a script, or rewrite something, or look at something that's been gone over, you can tell, like rings on a tree, by how bad it is, how long it's been in development.

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

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I don't know a lot of show runners. I mean I met a lot of them in picket lines. I'm not part of a, like, secret society or pickup basketball game. As far as I'm concerned, pick-up basketball games are secret societies. They confuse me. I've never been a networker or I've never been very social.

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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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I used to write chronologically when I started, from beginning to end. Eventually I went, 'That's absurd; my heart is in this one scene, therefore I must follow it.'

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We need narrative; it feeds us in a particular way, and deconstructing it completely before you've actually experienced it, I think it leaves us unfed.

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I'm a very gentle man, not unlike Gandhi.

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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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As far as I am concerned, the first episode of Buffy was the beginning of my career. It was the first time I told a story from start to finish the way I wanted.

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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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I love to write. I love it. I mean there's nothin in the world I like better, and that includes sex, probably because I'm so very bad at it.

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I love fantasy. I love horror. I love musicals. Whatever doesn't really happen in life is what I'm interested in. As a way of commenting on everything that does happen in life, because ultimately the only thing I'm really interested in is people.

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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 that we really have a quality show.

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Buffy loves Angel. He loves her. And I love Ho Hos.

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I am a great believer in found families and I'm not a great believer in blood.

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I think everyone who makes movies should be forced to do television. Because you have to finish. You have to get it done, and there are a lot of decisions made just for the sake of making decisions. You do something because it's efficient and because it gets the story told and it connects to the audience.

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The two things that matter the most to me: emotional resonance and rocket launchers. Party of Five, a brilliant show, and often made me cry uncontrollably, suffered ultimately from a lack of rocket launchers.

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Remember to always be yourself.

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