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People used to laugh that academics would study Disney movies. There's nothing more important for academics to study, because they shape the minds of our children possibly more than any single thing. (Joss Whedon)
You can't be a storyteller and a speechwriter at the same time. View quote
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I designed 'Buffy' to be an icon, to be an emotional experience, to be loved in a way that other shows can't be loved. Because it's about adolescence, which is the most important thing people go through in their development, becoming an adult. View quote
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I'm a science fiction geek from birth - that's just who I am. View quote
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Sarah Michelle Gellar's made some really good choices. She's had some bad breaks. She goes with the independent, interesting young filmmakers and then they get slammed, like 'Southland Tales.' I'm proud of what she's trying to do. It's hard. View quote
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Every kid who hated grownups becomes a grownup. Well, except the ones who died. View quote
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Writers are completely out of touch with reality. Writers are a crazy person. We create conflict - for a living. We do this all the time, sometimes on a weekly basis; we create horrible, incredible circumstances and then figure a way out of them. That's what we do. View quote
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I am a great believer in found families and I'm not a great believer in blood. View quote
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An audience who watches my shows knows who I am, knows that right when they think I'm going to make a joke, I'm going to blow something up, or during the worst peril, I'm going to have someone give someone a kiss - it's just going to happen. View quote
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When I created Buffy, I wanted to create a female icon, but I also wanted to be very careful to surround her with men that not only have no problem with the idea of a female leader, but were in fact engaged and even attracted to the idea. View quote
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I think everyone who makes movies should be forced to do television. Because you have to finish. You have to get it done, and there are a lot of decisions made just for the sake of making decisions. You do something because it's efficient and because it gets the story told and it connects to the audience. (Joss Whedon)
A writer is supposed to have anonymity. View quote
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Kristen Stewart is kind of captivating; she can just stare at stuff and it works because I still want to watch it. View quote
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I love to write. I love it. I mean there's nothin in the world I like better, and that includes sex, probably because I'm so very bad at it. View quote
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There's a reason Tony Stark makes fun of 'Thor,' and mentions 'Shakespeare' in the park in 'The Avengers.' It's great to play high drama and comedy alongside a modern story. View quote
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I can do web, comic books, macrame, art. View quote
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Buffy loves Angel. He loves her. And I love Ho Hos. View quote
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There was a time before I felt I was a real writer, when I was a yarn spinner and I just wanted to tell story until it was over. But then there came a time where I was like, 'No, I want to understand something through writing this that I might have not understood before. I want people to come away with something to think about.' View quote
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I tend to tell stories that have a lot of momentum; it's not like 'and then months later...' I like things where the momentum of one action rolls into the next one so everything is the sum of that. View quote
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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. View quote
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Limitations are something that I latch onto - like working in genre, or if you're writing TV, there are act breaks, there's a length of time it's supposed to be. The restrictions of budget and sets can be really useful. When you can have everything, it's very hard to make things feel real and lived in. (Joss Whedon)
I've been to two festivals in my life, and I've never been to Toronto. I haven't really been making festival movies. This is new territory for me. View quote
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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. View quote
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Actors wait tables, directors work at video stores. View quote
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I don't tend to write straight dramas where real life just impinges. But because I don't, when I do, it is very interesting to slap people in the face with just an absolute of life. View quote
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