Quote

I don't think I'm like Shakespeare.

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
Shakespeare
Think
Thinking
Like

More quotes by Joss Whedon

Image
Casting is storytelling.
Joss Whedon
Image
Most people don't see Hamlet as an old bald guy.
Joss Whedon
Image
Writers are completely out of touch with reality.
Joss Whedon
Image
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.
Joss Whedon
Image
Don't give me songs, give me something to sing about!
Joss Whedon
Image
I'm not great at fear. I made the least frightening vampire show ever on TV. I'm pretty much good at heroic narratives and making people laugh, and that's pretty much it.
Joss Whedon
Image
The thing about changing the world... Once you do it, the world's all different.
Joss Whedon
Image
Okay, uh, I'm lost. I'm angry. And I'm armed.
Joss Whedon
Image
I go to movies expecting to have a whole experience. If I want a movie that doesn't end I'll go to a French movie. A movie has to be complete within itself, it can't just build off the first one or play variations.
Joss Whedon
Image
That wouldn't be a first, now would it? Jean. Jean Grey is dead, Agent. Yeah, that'll last.
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
Everything I do is going to contain the message that men who are going to be comfortable with powerful women are going to be more powerful men
Joss Whedon
Image
I can do web, comic books, macrame, art.
Joss Whedon
Image
I've got a theory, it could be bunnies... I've got a theor- Bunnies aren't just cute like everybody supposes They've got them hoppy legs and twitchy little noses. And what's with all the carrots-? What do they need such good eyesight for anyway? Bunnies, bunnies it must be bunnies! ...or maybe midgets.
Joss Whedon
Image
Passion... it lies in all of us. Sleeping, waiting, and though unwanted, unbidden, it will stir, open its jaws, and howl. It speaks to us, guides us... passion rules us all. And we obey. What other choice do we have?
Joss Whedon
Image
If I kill you, you'll be awake, you'll be facing me, and you'll be armed.
Joss Whedon
Image
Somebody once asked me if I have anything like faith, and I said I have faith in the narrative. I have a belief in a narrative that is bigger than me, that is alive and I trust will work itself out.
Joss Whedon
Image
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.
Joss Whedon
Image
I describe television as feminine and movies as masculine, in the sense that television wants to examine a problem from all sides and talk about it for a long time, and movies just want to hit the climax and then maybe have a smoke.
Joss Whedon
Image
Beautiful revelations of power are often written by the guy who got kicked around and didn’t have any power.
Joss Whedon