Joss Whedon quotes - page 9

When I was a kid, maybe 11, I remember saying, 'When I grow up I wanna have enough money to buy a really cool car, because I won't.' (Joss Whedon)
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. That element of surprise ... genre-busting is very much at the heart of both the movie and the series. View quote
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Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FRIKKIN' SHOW. I totally shoulda took the road that had all those people on it. Damn. View quote
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Identity is something that you are constantly earning. View quote
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Live all of your life. Understand it, see it, appreciate it. And have fun. View quote
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I am a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar! View quote
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You either believe women are people or you don't. It's that simple. View quote
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I don't understand why or how anyone ever pulled off the whole idea of 'women are inferior.' View quote
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When you're making a film, you have an obligation to fill the frame with life. View quote
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If somebody comes up to me, it's because they're moved by something I'm moved by. I've never taken a job I didn't love... So when somebody's coming up to me, or they're writing, they're in the same space I am in. View quote
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Forgiveness is like a great act of compassion. That it was done not because someone deserved it, but because they needed it. (Joss Whedon)
The stupidest person in the room might have the best idea. View quote
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Don't give me songs, give me something to sing about! View quote
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Writing is the greatest thing that can happen to a human being. It's the best. View quote
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I do listen to music. Movie scores, exclusively, because it's all about mood and nonspecificity. I love the way modern movie scoring is all about nonspecificity. You know, if I shuffled the tracks from 'Inception,' I challenge you to tell me which is which. View quote
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There's a lot of anger in the Twitter-verse, as I've discovered. But there's a lot of love. View quote
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The only way to real mature love is to get past the tropes of what we consider 'romance.' View quote
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Everything I write tends to turn into a superhero team, even if I didn't mean for it to. I always start off wanting to be solitary, because a) it's simpler, and b) that isolation is something that I relate to as a storyteller. And then no matter what, I always end up with a team. View quote
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Every time somebody opens their mouth they have an opportunity to do one of two things - connect or divide. View quote
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I hate it when people talk about Buffy as being campy... I hate camp, I don't enjoy dumb TV. I believe Aaron Spelling has single-handedly lowered SAT scores. View quote
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The way a musical can make us feel is unlike anything else, in song and particularly in dance. I think people fly through plate-glass windows when they get shot because movies don't have dance scenes any more. This is what we do instead. (Joss Whedon)
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!' View quote
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We are, all of us, incoherent text, and just knowing that - knowing that no matter how much you say, 'I am this' and part of you is not that - means that you can say it. View quote
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The first lesson a watcher learns is to separate truth from illusion. Because in the world of magics, it's the hardest thing to do. View quote
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Obsession is beautiful. It's what makes art. View quote
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