Joss Whedon quotes - page 7

The first thing I ever thought of when I thought of Buffy, the movie, was the little...blonde girl who goes into a dark alley and gets killed, in every horror movie. The idea of Buffy was to subvert that idea, that image, and create someone who was a hero where she had always been a victim. (Joss Whedon)
The idea of changing culture is important to me, and it can only be done in a popular medium. View quote
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Dr. Banner, your work is unparalleled. And I'm a huge fan of the way you lose control and turn into an enormous, green rage monster. View quote
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To read makes our speaking English good. View quote
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What I love most about icons is finding out what's behind them, exploring the price of their power. View quote
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I always watch what I say. I am what I say. View quote
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I'm a very gentle man, not unlike Gandhi. View quote
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The two things that matter the most to me: emotional resonance and rocket launchers. Party of Five, a brilliant show, and often made me cry uncontrollably, suffered ultimately from a lack of rocket launchers. View quote
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I don't write just to be clever. But sometimes I do. And if you don't have an understanding of the language, then the way in which it's bent doesn't actually register. It's the old you-gotta-paint-like-them-before-you-can-paint-like-you thing. View quote
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If you try to multitask in the classic sense of doing two things at once, what you end up doing is quasi-tasking. It's like being with children. You have to give it your full attention for however much time you have, and then you have to give something else your full attention. View quote
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I find that when you read a script, or rewrite something, or look at something that's been gone over, you can tell, like rings on a tree, by how bad it is, how long it's been in development. (Joss Whedon)
I always enjoy conversation more if there is some substance to it - which is a just incredibly hilarious thing for me to say because for many, many years I was the guy whose only contribution to any conversation was, 'There was a funny 'Simpson's' joke about that.' View quote
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I'll always protect what I'm working on. Which is why more and more of it is stuff only I can ruin. View quote
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I never tire of the heroes that I knew growing up. View quote
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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. View quote
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TV's like whitewater rafting: Without rocks, there wouldn't be rapids, and it wouldn't be as much fun. View quote
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We need narrative; it feeds us in a particular way, and deconstructing it completely before you've actually experienced it, I think it leaves us unfed. View quote
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I eat 'The Walking Dead' like its made of brains. Can't even watch the show, I love the book so much. View quote
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I don't want the giant ego. I don't want to become Kevin Costner, singing on the soundtrack to The Postman. View quote
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People always say I write a lot of pop culture references. Can somebody please count the pop culture references in 'Firefly?' Because I don't know how to put this to you, but there was one. I referenced The Beatles in the pilot. View quote
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I think 'Batman Begins' is certainly my favorite Batman movie I've seen. (Joss Whedon)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I've seen plenty of films where the projector broke. The problems that we have in the digital age are exactly the same as we had. Instead of, 'There's a hair in the gate,' it's, 'The computer ate the footage.' There will always be things like that going on. Nothing is perfect. View quote
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I respect the rules of TV, the rules of keeping things commercial and interesting and pop-y and fun. View quote
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