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You can't be a storyteller and a speechwriter at the same time.

Joss Whedon

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Joss Whedon
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 23
Actor
Animator
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Director
Film Director
Film Producer
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Science Fiction Writer
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My visions of the future are always pretty much standard issue. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer and there are flying cars.
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Women all live a double standard.
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As we all know, blinking lights means science.
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How do you know your Colossus is the genuine article in the first place? I read his mind. I matched his DNA. I smelled him. I also did that.
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Science fiction is like a blender - you can put in any historical experience and take influences from everything you see, read or experience.
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How did you find me here? If I was blind, I would see you. Stay with me. Forever. That's the whole point. I'll never leave. Not even if you kill me.
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Every writer loves the idea of being able to go in and fix a problem and then leave without obligation. It's fun!
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I'm well aware when they fired the starting gun I was halfway down the track, but I still ran as fast as I could for 25 years.
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You know what? I was wrong. You are an idiot. My life happens to, on occasion, suck beyond the telling of it. Sometimes more than I can handle.
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Casting is storytelling.
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So, no more running. I aim to misbehave.
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Everything is a drug. Family, art, causes, new shoes… We’re all just tweaking our chem to avoid the void.
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You can either watch TV or you can make TV.
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The rules are very important in a horror movie.
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I believe we are the only sentient beings in the universe, and I believe that 500 years from now, we will still be the only sentient beings around.
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Everything we do really is just a little marker on the long road to death. And sometimes that’s overwhelmingly depressing to me, and sometimes it makes me feel kinship and forgiveness. We’ve all got the same ending to the story. The way we make that story more elaborate, I got to respect.
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Actors wait tables, directors work at video stores.
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I am a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar!
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