Joss Whedon Quotes

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Joss Whedon

Profession : Writer

Birth : June 23, 1964

Writers are completely out of touch with reality.

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There are two things that interest me - and they're both power, ultimately. One is not having it and one is abusing it.

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If somebody comes up to me, it's because they're moved by something I'm moved by. I've never taken a job I didn't love... So when somebody's coming up to me, or they're writing, they're in the same space I am in.

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I never tire of the heroes that I knew growing up.

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'The Sixth Sense' is fine the second time around, but honestly, the first time around, it's dazzling.

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I think 'Batman Begins' is certainly my favorite Batman movie I've seen.

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We are, all of us, incoherent text, and just knowing that - knowing that no matter how much you say, 'I am this' and part of you is not that - means that you can say it.

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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, I always end up with a team.

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Ultimately what I end up writing about is helplessness and the flipside of that, empowerment.

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A great scientist is more open to a new idea than almost anybody.

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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 it's about adolescence, which is the most important thing people go through in their development, becoming an adult.

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The only way to real mature love is to get past the tropes of what we consider 'romance.'

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I am a fan of sequels even though they are inevitably awful.

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Who is to say who is the villain and who is the hero? Probably the dictionary.

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It's only recently women got to be action heroes on TV. Progress is slow, and often non-existent. There's plenty of cool comics with female characters... But all it takes is one Catwoman to set the cause back a decade.

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Twelve-year-old me wanted to do everything: act and sing and paint and dance.

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The way a musical can make us feel is unlike anything else, in song and particularly in dance. I think people fly through plate-glass windows when they get shot because movies don't have dance scenes any more. This is what we do instead.

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You don't buy a Picasso because you love the frame.

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If somebody is in a story, they need to be there for a reason, and not just to set up somebody else's story.

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I still believe that even though 'The Empire Strikes Back' is better in innumerable ways than 'Star Wars,' 'Star Wars' wins.

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