Quote

I write to be the characters that I am not.

Joss Whedon

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Joss Whedon
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 23
Actor
Animator
Cartoonist
Composer
Director
Film Director
Film Producer
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Television Actor
New York City
New York
Joseph Hill Whedon
Characters
Write
Character
Writing

More quotes by Joss Whedon

Image
You can either watch TV or you can make TV.
Joss Whedon
Image
I have a desperate longing to have a desperate longing
Joss Whedon
Image
The networks have a particular agenda, a particular model and structure. It doesn't have anything to do with content. This is not a dis on them - they are a business model, run by business people.
Joss Whedon
Image
Veronica solves little puzzles because she, like all of us, cannot unravel the bigger ones.
Joss Whedon
Image
I don't want to create responsible shows with lawyers in them. I want to invade people's dreams.
Joss Whedon
Image
I don't have a particular ambition in any medium. I just want to keep telling stories. If somebody pays me, also good.
Joss Whedon
Image
I really love `Serenity.' I'm really proud of it and excited to see it my guys on the big screen, bringing something new to it. But `Firefly' was a different animal, something I will regret losing until the day they put me in a box, because I did have a lot of good stories I wanted to tell.
Joss Whedon
Image
That all you got...Bub?
Joss Whedon
Image
I did my English A level in England, and we studied Shakespeare. I had great, great high school teachers, and we parsed the text within an inch of its life.
Joss Whedon
Image
What 'Scream' was great at was presenting ironic detachment and then making you actually care about the people that were having it, and juxtaposing it with their situation, all in the service of making a great horror movie. It was fresh.
Joss Whedon
Image
It's not enough to bash in heads. You've got to bash in minds.
Joss Whedon
Image
I'm very much of the make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.
Joss Whedon
Image
I got a bunch of people together to talk about doing a lot and decided that I really want to throw my hand in and do as much as I can.
Joss Whedon
Image
What you cut out becomes part of the story you tell.
Joss Whedon
Image
Identity is something that you are constantly earning.
Joss Whedon
Image
What I love most about icons is finding out what's behind them, exploring the price of their power.
Joss Whedon
Image
In other news, it's been far too long since I gloated massively about the fact that I know what's going to happen on Buffy and you all don't.
Joss Whedon
Image
I think there's a possibility that comic book movies are getting a tiny bit better on the one hand because they're no longer made by executives, who are, you know, ninety-year-old bald tailors with cigars, going, 'The kids love this!'
Joss Whedon
Image
I'm not a control freak - I'm a control enthusiast.
Joss Whedon
Image
I am a great believer in found families and I'm not a great believer in blood.
Joss Whedon