My first gig ever was writing looplines for a movie that had already been made. You know, writing lines over somebody's back to explain something, to help make a connection, to add a joke, or to just add babble because the people are in frame and should be saying something.
Joss Whedon
Related How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ... FEREIDOON YAZDI Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I ... NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. HARPER LEE A Ritual to Read to Each Other If you don’t know the kind of person I am and... WILLIAM STAFFORD To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Joss Whedon and all the writers of 'Iron Man' and 'Thor' found a way to keep Coulson... CLARK GREGG I do want to work on writing, because writing's a skill. Writing is something that you can train... KRISTEN STEWART Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ... NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr... GAIL CARRIGER I've always been creating my whole life, you know. I've just had a need to create, whether i... DAN FOGLER We are born different to make a difference. LISA R. REYNOLDS The fact is that if the writer's attention is on producing a work of art, a work that is good in its... FLANNERY O'CONNOR To be or not to be. That's not really a question. JEAN-LUC GODARD I've kind of learned this about Joss Whedon. Never say never. I've learned that. I also have... NATHAN FILLION if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it... CHARLES BUKOWSKI There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me i... CHINUA ACHEBE To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. GOLDA MEIR 'E.T.' was the movie that made me want to make movies in the first place, and it was the fir... ADAM GREEN I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my lif... JANE AUSTEN Color comes to life when you add a little love. ANTHONY T. HINCKS Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev... A WALK TO REMEMBER Before we do, I suggest you take a break. If you need to go to the bathroom, this is a good time. If... PSEUDONYMOUS BOSCH So many people think that if you're writing fantasy, it means you can just make everything up as... V. E. SCHWAB Writing is a solitary existence. Making a movie is controlled chaos - thousands of moving parts and ... DAN BROWN There's plenty of money out there. They print more every day. But this ticket, there's only five of ... ROALD DAHL When you make a movie, you really have to be clever and smart, find something new for the worldwide ... OLIVIER MEGATON Do not let a day pass without adding to your knowledge SOTONYE ANGA There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn... HARPER LEE The role of the
Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to
think of themselve... LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It
has no power to explain even some
of the most basic principl... LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if
someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically... LEWIS N. ROE What naturally you want to do if you were a prominent person in the public light and you are disgrac... GAIL COLLINS The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m... ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt... ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank... ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ... ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate... ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ... ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices. ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO Every time you post something online, you have a choice. You can either make it something that ... ZOE SUGG Writing for 'Rooster' was a strange experience. It's funny, once you tap into a voice, w... JEZ BUTTERWORTH Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW When you're writing for a sequel and there's a movie that's been deemed sacred ground by... TROY DUFFY Add love, and a person might do something crazy. Add love, and all the lines between right and wrong... JODI PICOULT I have ADD or something. Even when I am doing something, it's me on the computer, I'm painti... CHARLYNE YI How to be a Poet (to remind myself) Make a place to sit down. Sit down. Be quiet. <... WENDELL BERRY Being able to say something lyrically, to say something that will do more than just be words, is rea... NIKKI SIXX To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is. JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy "To go outside, and there perchance to stay Or to re... HENRY N. BEARD To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. TOM ROBBINS I guess my feeling is is that if you're going to make a joke, that's fine, but you should al... ADAM CAROLLA When you are writing literary writing, you are communicating something subtextual with emotions and ... JOYCE CAROL OATES He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be. CRAIG GROESCHEL The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr... C.S. LEWIS I made the decision that I was going to make rap music in, like, fourth grade, so it's been some... CHANCE THE RAPPER There's something so great when you're watching a movie when you slowly get to know somebody... DEREK CIANFRANCE The First book written by me was like a puzzle, like "What to write now, first?", "From Where to Sta... DEYTH BANGER A tooth for a tooth, will make the world's inhabitants a people without teeth SOTONYE ANGA Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you. ERNEST HEMINGWAY The atheist might have
no proof for the
supernatural, but they
also have no proof
against it. If we ... LEWIS N. ROE He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY After Rilke's Letters -- by John VanDyke Wilmerding II this is my letter to a young ... RAINER MARIA RILKE Yes, their reasons are overwhelming. They are as big as hope and as deep as revolt. They are the rea... ALBERT CAMUS …A city deprived of everything, devoid of light and devoid of heat, starved, and still not crushed... ALBERT CAMUS Words always take on the color of the deeds or sacrifices they evoke. ALBERT CAMUS No, no. Don't make that face. Every time I propose to you, you make that twisty, unhappy face. It we... TESSA DARE Atticus---" ...said Jem bleakly. "How could they do it, how could they?" "I don't know, but the... HARPER LEE Learn to stand for something in life otherwise you will fall for anything that comes along which is ... EUGINIA HERLIHY Dreams can change histories and songs can alter destinies. TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO It's not that I'm apolitical... In my youth, I was a freelance political speechwriter, which... SUSAN ISAACS The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE When I'm writing, I need to amplify my thoughts and feelings on just a conversation that I might... JAMES BAY Is it just me, or do you also think this is unnatural behavior in a female parent? Isn't there a fed... ANN EDWARDS CANNON I know there are people, if I go into a market or a city for the first time, there are people that a... JEFF DANIELS The writing I love has something memorable in it - an image, a smell. It's the connection betwee... ATUL GAWANDE It takes a CONSTANT flowing of gas from the cylinder to keep the fire burning under your pot. “WOO... OLAOTAN FAWEHINMI I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the ... E. O. WILSON Now the second common characteristic of fiction follows from this, and it is that fiction is present... FLANNERY O'CONNOR I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I ad... NAGUIB MAHFOUZ In writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars,' I had the freedom to go beyond the origina... IAN DOESCHER Je choisis des mots simples et concrets... J'essaie de faire des phrases courtes et j'évite les inv... JACQUES POULIN If you’re trying to help make the soup, try to add something besides bitterness….jh JIMBO HENDERSON Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i... JOSEPH CONRAD You just have to make sure you're writing about something that's true. It has to be honest a... TEDDY THOMPSON The first book I ever really read was Plato's 'Republic,' and then I had to go over that... HUEY NEWTON I've never felt a connection like this with anyone else... I don't even know how to explain it. I fe... M. MOLLY BACKES I want to move people, stir something within them that makes them feel. That's what a movie shou... NADINE VELAZQUEZ When people begin to define the things that they believe in, based upon the exclusion of all the thi... C. JOYBELL C. Somebody would think I was trying to get favored treatment because my ancestors had the name Moon. A... BUZZ ALDRIN When I had my first gig, I was 18 in January in 2007. My first gig that I got paid, I was playing fo... AFROJACK Most of the best writing, the most creative writing, the most interesting, the most out-of-the-box k... ED HARRIS
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An audience who watches my shows knows who I am, knows that right when they think I'm going to m... JOSS WHEDON Buffy loves Angel. He loves her. And I love Ho Hos. JOSS WHEDON 'Buffy' is about growing up. 'Angel' is really about already having grown up, dealin... JOSS WHEDON When I created Buffy, I wanted to create a female icon, but I also wanted to be very careful to surr... JOSS WHEDON I designed 'Buffy' to be an icon, to be an emotional experience, to be loved in a way that o... JOSS WHEDON I hate it when people talk about Buffy as being campy... I hate camp, I don't enjoy dumb TV. I b... JOSS WHEDON Passion. It lies in all of us. Sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted, unbidden, it will stir...... JOSS WHEDON I've had so much success. I had something to say, I got to say it, people heard it, and they agr... JOSS WHEDON Science fiction is like a blender - you can put in any historical experience and take influences fro... JOSS WHEDON Very occasionally, if you pay really close attention, life doesn't suck. JOSS WHEDON I'll take crazy over stupid any day. JOSS WHEDON Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE. JOSS WHEDON Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck. JOSS WHEDON You can't take the sky from me. JOSS WHEDON Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke. JOSS WHEDON The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn't look like there's a light at the end of the tunnel, ... JOSS WHEDON I'm not a leader now. I'm a whole damn army. JOSS WHEDON Passion, it lies in all of us, sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted... unbidden... it will sti... JOSS WHEDON When I say, "I love you," it's not because I want you or because I can't have you. It has nothing to... JOSS WHEDON I also felt that Ron and Hermione would have gotten divorced. I'm sorry, I just do. The end of Harry... JOSS WHEDON I could not conceive that [fans] actually wanted me to sign something. It took a long time for me to... JOSS WHEDON Everything is a drug. Family, art, causes, new shoes... We're all just tweaking our chem to avoid th... JOSS WHEDON I'd rather make a show 100 people need to see, than a show that 1000 people want to see. JOSS WHEDON Don’t give people what they want, give them what they need. JOSS WHEDON Somebody once asked me if I have anything like faith, and I said I have faith in the narrative. I ha... JOSS WHEDON Equality is not a concept. It's not something we should be striving for. It's a necessity. Equality ... JOSS WHEDON Ain't all buttons and charts, little albatross. Know what the first rule of flying is? Well I s'pose... JOSS WHEDON The one thing a creator can bring to the table when everybody else has all the money and power is ce... JOSS WHEDON The thing with the comics is that you have license to go down every alley your brain can think of. JOSS WHEDON The Internet community started forming right when 'Buffy' started airing, and the notion of ... JOSS WHEDON The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn't look like there's a light at the end of the ... JOSS WHEDON Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women. JOSS WHEDON The thing about changing the world... Once you do it, the world's all different. JOSS WHEDON Kristen Stewart is kind of captivating; she can just stare at stuff and it works because I still wan... JOSS WHEDON There’s a fine line between support and stalking and let’s all stay on the right side of that. JOSS WHEDON Writers are completely out of touch with reality. Writers are a crazy person. We create conflict - f... JOSS WHEDON I was not popular in school, and I was definitely not a ladies' man. And I had a very painful ad... JOSS WHEDON A lot of people who saw 'The Avengers' didn't read comic books, don't like comic boo... JOSS WHEDON There's a reason Tony Stark makes fun of 'Thor,' and mentions 'Shakespeare' in t... JOSS WHEDON Something like 'Much Ado' happens, and even 'Avengers' happens because of the years ... JOSS WHEDON I loved working with 'The Avengers' cast and we had a great time, but it was a job, and they... JOSS WHEDON 'The Dark Knight,' for me, has the same problem that every other 'Batman' movie has.... JOSS WHEDON Wonder Woman isn't Spider-man or Batman. She doesn't have a town, she has a world. That was ... JOSS WHEDON Faith in God means believing absolutely in something with no proof whatsoever. Faith in humanity mea... JOSS WHEDON The times are chaotic. For me, I would hope that people look at [Angel] and gain strength by it. Wit... JOSS WHEDON Bottom line is, even if you see 'em coming, you're not ready for the big moments. No one asks for th... JOSS WHEDON My mom and dad were divorced, and although they got along very well, my mom thought American televis... JOSS WHEDON I didn't watch a lot of American television growing up. I just liked to read a lot and watch mov... JOSS WHEDON I always was an early-morning or late-night writer. Early morning was my favorite; late night was be... JOSS WHEDON 'The Sixth Sense' is fine the second time around, but honestly, the first time around, it... JOSS WHEDON Humor keeps us alive. Humor and food. Don't forget food. You can go a week without laughing. JOSS WHEDON Because it’s no longer enough to be a decent person. It’s no longer enough to shake our heads an... JOSS WHEDON So, why do you write these strong female characters? Because you’re still asking me tha... JOSS WHEDON I think it's always important for academics to study popular culture, even if the thing they are... JOSS WHEDON I don't tend to write straight dramas where real life just impinges. But because I don't, wh... JOSS WHEDON Recognizing power in another does not diminish your own. JOSS WHEDON Who is to say who is the villain and who is the hero? Probably the dictionary. JOSS WHEDON Everybody who labels themselves a 'nerd' isn't some giant person locked in a cubbyhole w... JOSS WHEDON Absolutely eat dessert first. The thing that you want to do the most, do that. JOSS WHEDON You know, I always was an early morning or late night writer. Early morning was my favorite; late ni... JOSS WHEDON Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there. JOSS WHEDON You go to movies to see people you love suffer - that's why you go to the movies. You don't go to se... JOSS WHEDON This is something that I do consider to be good advice: I took my first paycheck and I put it in the... JOSS WHEDON It's very important that we start creating new content again. We can only build on nostalgia so much... JOSS WHEDON If I wrote what I really think, I would be so sad all the time. We create to fill a gap - not just t... JOSS WHEDON I'm well aware when they fired the starting gun I was halfway down the track, but I still ran as fas... JOSS WHEDON I'm the least confident person in so many ways. But I believed that if somebody gave me the chance t... JOSS WHEDON I go to movies expecting to have a whole experience. If I want a movie that doesn't end, I'll go to ... JOSS WHEDON Everything we do really is just a little marker on the long road to death. And sometimes that's over... JOSS WHEDON It's a question of opening it up, and it's a question of closing it down, ... You know, opening it u... JOSS WHEDON Those of us who write spend our entire lives in an endless English class. JOSS WHEDON It's only recently women got to be action heroes on TV. Progress is slow, and often non-existent... JOSS WHEDON I took the overreaching arc I was headed toward in the TV show and made that the plot of the movie, ... JOSS WHEDON For me, the act of telling the story and showing it to somebody is almost gravy. JOSS WHEDON My dad would go to work every day and write in a room full of funny people. He enjoyed it. I know gr... JOSS WHEDON I always believe in just have as much fun as you can so that when you're in the part that you ha... JOSS WHEDON What I do like is hiking. And that's what filmmaking is. It's a hike. It's challenging a... JOSS WHEDON I watched that episode a thousand times [Once more, with feeling]....because I'm an incredible narci... JOSS WHEDON What I love most about icons is finding out what's behind them, exploring the price of their pow... JOSS WHEDON The misogyny that is in every culture is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of b... JOSS WHEDON I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all ... JOSS WHEDON It may not feel too classy, begging just to eat But you know who does that? Lassie, and s... JOSS WHEDON Shiny, let's be bad guys! JOSS WHEDON If the apocalypse comes...beep me! JOSS WHEDON That girl will rain destruction down on you and your ship. She is an albatross, Captain. JOSS WHEDON Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FRIKKIN' SH... JOSS WHEDON We are, all of us, incoherent text, and just knowing that - knowing that no matter how much you say,... JOSS WHEDON What's exciting is, like, Batman Begins basically really did a wonderful job explaining exactly why ... JOSS WHEDON It's the story of a young woman's journey that involves a great deal of horror and some heroics. It'... JOSS WHEDON There are good crews in every country, ... But there are certain ways of working. We were able to co... JOSS WHEDON Let's say it's a good jumping off point, JOSS WHEDON I thought maybe another network or a miniseries, JOSS WHEDON I thought 'this is too exciting to let go of.' JOSS WHEDON As far as I am concerned, the first episode of Buffy was the beginning of my career. It was the firs... JOSS WHEDON It's the story of a young woman's journey that involves a great deal of horror and some heroics, JOSS WHEDON I think everyone who makes movies should be forced to do television. Because you have to finish. You... JOSS WHEDON Now that that paradigm has worked, the market will be inundated, ... It's a revenue source companies... JOSS WHEDON James suddenly seemed to have his guitar *all* the time and at the drop of a hat...or even with no h... JOSS WHEDON Like Pain, fear can be controlled JOSS WHEDON I wrote movies every week, that's what I did. It was about finding that moment that is so good, so r... JOSS WHEDON It was really fun, ... Though I did discover that the Chinese language can say a lot with very few s... JOSS WHEDON It's about how much freedom you can take away from somebody before they either fold or fight, ... It... JOSS WHEDON Mal: [closing the doors] Good day! JOSS WHEDON The master plan does not have a master plan. Television ultimately finds itself, and after it finds ... JOSS WHEDON Wherever I was, I was happy. At peace. I knew that everyone I cared about was all right. I knew it. ... JOSS WHEDON Two things that matter to me. Emotional resonance and rocket launchers. JOSS WHEDON You either have to write or you shouldn't be writing. That's all. JOSS WHEDON Redemption is something you have to fight for in a very personal, down-dirty way. Some of our charac... JOSS WHEDON All worthy work is open to interpretations the author did not intend. Art isn't your pet -- it's you... JOSS WHEDON Seven years, Dawn. Working with the Slayer. Seeing my friends get more and more powerful... a witch.... JOSS WHEDON Ultimately what I end up writing about is helplessness and the flipside of that, empowerment. JOSS WHEDON "Someone else's loss is my chocolatey goodness" JOSS WHEDON I think it's not inaccurate to say that I had a perfectly happy childhood during which I was ver... JOSS WHEDON Horror movies don't exist unless you go and see them, and people always will. JOSS WHEDON I'm a very hard-line, angry atheist. Yet I am fascinated by the concept of devotion. JOSS WHEDON I would love to give you a more in-depth coherent explanation of my view of the soul, and if I had o... JOSS WHEDON Every kid who hated grownups becomes a grownup. Well, except the ones who died. JOSS WHEDON Everything we do really is just a little marker on the long road to death. And sometimes that’s ov... JOSS WHEDON My favorite part of Comic-Con? The groupies. JOSS WHEDON I love to write. I love it. I mean there's nothin in the world I like better, and that includes sex,... JOSS WHEDON We'll meet a Wonder Woman who is similar to the one from the original comics and from the TV series ... JOSS WHEDON I don't want the giant ego. I don't want to become Kevin Costner, singing on the soundtrack to The P... JOSS WHEDON as opposed to irate. JOSS WHEDON We'll never make Firefly again, because that was a thing that existed and is now gone. And Serenity ... JOSS WHEDON Firefly JOSS WHEDON Always be yourself... unless you suck. JOSS WHEDON The two things that matter the most to me: emotional resonance and rocket launchers. Party of Five, ... JOSS WHEDON I was given license to purely make it my own and yet she is already an iconic Amazon princess, JOSS WHEDON They're a lot more attractive than I am, actually, ... Which kind of disturbs and upsets me. JOSS WHEDON I'm a believer in that, ... I am a great believer in found families and I'm not a great believer in ... JOSS WHEDON The idea behind the show, ... was to take nine people and say, 'Nine people look out into the blackn... JOSS WHEDON I had this extraordinary world I helped create, with this cast I felt were the most extraordinary pe... JOSS WHEDON I'm a very hard-line, angry atheist. Yet I am fascinated by the concept of devotion. JOSS WHEDON I've been to two festivals in my life, and I've never been to Toronto. I haven't really ... JOSS WHEDON Lockheed! You found me! You are the best X-Dragon ever. JOSS WHEDON I leave the world in terrible turmoil. I come back, same turmoil. Nothing at all different. Well, ou... JOSS WHEDON How do you know your Colossus is the genuine article in the first place? I read his mind.... JOSS WHEDON I love fantasy. I love horror. I love musicals. Whatever doesn't really happen in life is what I... JOSS WHEDON You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are. JOSS WHEDON Come a day there won’t be room for naughty men like us to slip about at all. This job goes south, ... JOSS WHEDON If you can't run, you crawl. If you can't crawl-- you find someone to carry you. JOSS WHEDON In the case of both Buffy and Firefly , it was almost a case of devising a language, JOSS WHEDON Bottom line is, even if you see them coming, you're not ready for the big moments. No one asks for t... JOSS WHEDON People would say, 'You're going to need this and that,' and I'd be like, 'Not so much.' If I only ne... JOSS WHEDON Serenity. JOSS WHEDON We'll meet a Wonder Woman who is similar to the one from the original comics and from the TV series ... JOSS WHEDON In TV the attitude is: 'Tell me what we have and we'll build around that,' ... Feature filmmaking se... JOSS WHEDON [What about remarks from the actor that he's getting too old to play an immortal vampire who never a... JOSS WHEDON [After being asked what he thinks about people saying the 6th season of Buffy got a little too dark]... JOSS WHEDON I like my chances. But it is absolutely still too amorphous for me to make any kind of announcement ... JOSS WHEDON I think it's realistic, JOSS WHEDON Well, he's buff, really buff; he's a very attractive man, how come that never came up? JOSS WHEDON Our luck? You noticed anything in particular about our luck these past few days? Any kind of pattern... JOSS WHEDON She doesn't really understand this world. She's very strong but she's also very naive. She's not qui... JOSS WHEDON I felt this was a story that had not been told, ... I just needed somebody to believe as strongly as... JOSS WHEDON My reasons were completely personal, ... My wife is an architect; I have two kids under 3. There may... JOSS WHEDON Crazy crisp dialogue. Incredibly tight plotting. Big emotion. JOSS WHEDON I also don't trust Caribou anymore. They're out there, on the tundra, waiting... Something's going d... JOSS WHEDON For me [Buffy] was about your teenage years but it was again the whole experience, the same situatio... JOSS WHEDON Originally, I was hesitant. But then it's also sort of why I became really interested, because she d... JOSS WHEDON Someone else's loss is my chocolatey goodness JOSS WHEDON Serenity JOSS WHEDON Because you should always do something on a spaceship if you can… JOSS WHEDON Everything's shiny, Cap'n. Not to fret. JOSS WHEDON It is, in an unprecedented sense, your movie. So, it if sucks, it's your fault. JOSS WHEDON It's very sweet to mention the word sequel, ... Obviously that's the way my brain works. It continue... JOSS WHEDON I am a leaf on the wind - watch how I soar JOSS WHEDON Tonight sucks. And look at me. Look at - look at stupid Buffy. Too dumb for college, and-and-and fre... JOSS WHEDON As we all know, blinking lights means science. JOSS WHEDON People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. An... JOSS WHEDON If every vampire who said he was at The Crucifixion, was actually there, it would have been like Woo... JOSS WHEDON I love a good romantic comedy. JOSS WHEDON 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... JOSS WHEDON I had older brothers, and I don't think there's anything worse than an older brother. They p... JOSS WHEDON I don't know a lot of show runners. I mean I met a lot of them in picket lines. I'm not part... JOSS WHEDON He's like Super Librarian, y'know? Everyone forgets, Willow, that knowledge is the ultimate weapon. JOSS WHEDON I am not a fan of referencing your own work when it's in a different universe than what you'... JOSS WHEDON Every vampire fiction reinvents vampires to its own needs. You take what you want. JOSS WHEDON I go to movies expecting to have a whole experience. If I want a movie that doesn't end, I'l... JOSS WHEDON That's the great thing about 'The West Wing:' you really felt like you were in the thick... JOSS WHEDON I've never met a well-adjusted person. It's weird. JOSS WHEDON I think to an extent every human being needs to be redeemed somewhat or at least needs to look at th... JOSS WHEDON Nobody treating us like kids. For once, we gt to be equals, not babies. Could use more of that in th... JOSS WHEDON I've got a theory, it could be bunnies... I've got a theor- Bunnies aren't jus... JOSS WHEDON There are two things that I cannot resist: one is musicals and the other is a spaceship in trouble. ... JOSS WHEDON Sarah Michelle Gellar's made some really good choices. She's had some bad breaks. She goes w... JOSS WHEDON I always enjoy conversation more if there is some substance to it - which is a just incredibly hilar... JOSS WHEDON I was never a games night guy, but at some point, social interaction starts to freak me out. So when... JOSS WHEDON I'm never interested in movies where you don't care about the people you're watching, an... JOSS WHEDON The news isn't there to tell you what happened. It's there to tell you what it wants you to hear or ... JOSS WHEDON In my generation, there was a single girl given the strength and skill to fight the spread of darkne... JOSS WHEDON I did my English A level in England, and we studied Shakespeare. I had great, great high school teac... JOSS WHEDON My absolute favorite part of Comic-Con is seeing, like, a 'Mass Effect' guy hanging out with... JOSS WHEDON Everything is so fragile. There's so much conflict, so much pain...you keep waiting for the dust to ... JOSS WHEDON All I ask is this: Do something. Try something. Speaking out, showing up, writing a letter, a check,... JOSS WHEDON Time for some thrillin' heroics. JOSS WHEDON Captain, I think you have a problem with your brain being missing. JOSS WHEDON My people - before I was changed - they exchanged this as a sign of devotion. It's a Claddagh ring. ... JOSS WHEDON Personally, the NSA collecting data on me freaks me out. It totally freaks me out. And yet I'm f... JOSS WHEDON I'm sorry. But it's like you said, Emma...I don't have any claws. JOSS WHEDON