Top 250 Joss Whedon Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “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

102. “I love fantasy. I love horror. I love musicals. Whatever doesn’t really happen in life is what I’m interested in. As a way of commenting on everything that does happen in life, because ultimately the only thing I’m really interested in is people.”

— Joss Whedon

103. “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

104. “I don’t want the giant ego. I don’t want to become Kevin Costner, singing on the soundtrack to The Postman.”

— Joss Whedon

105. “Horror movies don’t exist unless you go and see them, and people always will.”

— Joss Whedon

106. “Xander, don’t speak Latin in front of the books.”

— Joss Whedon

107. “The stupidest person in the room might have the best idea.”

— Joss Whedon

108. “Shiny, let’s be bad guys!”

— Joss Whedon

109. “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

110. “Sketchy: I’m no stranger to stoner logic.”

— Joss Whedon

111. “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.”

— Joss Whedon

112. “Every time somebody opens their mouth they have an opportunity to do one of two things – connect or divide.”

— Joss Whedon

113. “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.”

— Joss Whedon

114. “Let’s put it this way: If a raccoon can carry a movie, then they believe maybe even a woman can.”

— Joss Whedon

115. “I’d rather make a show 100 people need to see, than a show that 1000 people want to see.”

— Joss Whedon

116. “I love all genres. The only thing I get stymied by is the Family Drama. I don’t necessarily know how to approach that.”

— Joss Whedon

117. “Nothing in the world is the way it ought to be. It’s harsh and cruel. But that’s why there’s us. Champions. It doesn’t matter where we come from, what we’ve done or suffered, or even if we make a difference. We live as though the world was what it should be, to show it what it can be.”

— Joss Whedon

118. “It’s not enough to bash in heads. You’ve got to bash in minds.”

— Joss Whedon

119. “Two things that matter to me. Emotional resonance and rocket launchers.”

— Joss Whedon

120. “People feel removed from sexism. ‘I’m not a sexist, but I’m not a feminist.’ They think there’s this fuzzy middle ground. There’s no fuzzy middle ground. You either believe that women are people or you don’t. It’s that simple.”

— Joss Whedon

121. “Those of us who write spend our entire lives in an endless English class.”

— Joss Whedon

122. “Captain, I think you have a problem with your brain being missing.”

— Joss Whedon

123. “I believe the only reality is how we treat each other. The morality comes from the absence of any grander scheme, not from the presence of any grander scheme.”

— Joss Whedon

124. “The first lesson a watcher learns is to separate truth from illusion. Because in the world of magicks, it’s the hardest thing to do.”

— Joss Whedon

125. “War is not just the business of death, it is the antitheses of life.”

— Joss Whedon

126. “There are two things that I cannot resist: one is musicals and the other is a spaceship in trouble. But I am smart enough not to combine the two things.”

— Joss Whedon

127. “I eat ‘The Walking Dead’ like its made of brains. Can’t even watch the show, I love the book so much.”

— Joss Whedon

128. “My favorite part of Comic-Con? The groupies. Man, they have loose morals, really. Men, women, I’m just saying that it gets weird on Sunday night. No, that’s sadly never happened.”

— Joss Whedon

129. “If I kill you, you’ll be awake, you’ll be facing me, and you’ll be armed.”

— Joss Whedon

130. “I’m a very hard-line, angry atheist. Yet I am fascinated by the concept of devotion.”

— Joss Whedon

131. “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

132. “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.”

— Joss Whedon

133. “Oddly enough, I never studied writing. I studied almost everything except writing.”

— Joss Whedon

134. “Every day’s a negotiation and sometimes it’s done with guns.”

— Joss Whedon

135. “Who is to say who is the villain and who is the hero? Probably the dictionary.”

— Joss Whedon

136. “When you’re making a film, you have an obligation to fill the frame with life.”

— Joss Whedon

137. “My visions of the future are always pretty much standard issue. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer and there are flying cars.”

— Joss Whedon

138. “I’m totally cool. I’m totally calm, and I’m totally cool. My calm is exceeded only by my cool. Which is total. Here we go.”

— Joss Whedon

139. “I set out in television with one simple goal: to purchase a Russian bride. Didn’t work out. Immigration stuff – it’s complicated.”

— Joss Whedon

140. “He’s like Super Librarian, y’know? Everyone forgets, Willow, that knowledge is the ultimate weapon.”

— Joss Whedon

141. “I tried to write a TV series, and then I discovered first of all that I love writing more than anything on this earth, and that you could write exactly as well as you want to.”

— Joss Whedon

142. “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.”

— Joss Whedon

143. “Because it’s no longer enough to be a decent person. It’s no longer enough to shake our heads and make concerned grimaces at the news. True enlightened activism is the only thing that can save humanity from itself.”

— Joss Whedon

144. “I loved the idea of a girl going into a dark alley, and a monster comes, and then she just aces him. It’s like, you want to see the tiny person suddenly take control. God, my whole career is basically about that!”

— Joss Whedon

145. “If I find out I have to write today and nothing else, that’s a perfect day. I know a lot of people who are great at it and make it look easy who are tortured and miserable people. Writing for me is perfect peace.”

— Joss Whedon

146. “I don’t understand why or how anyone ever pulled off the whole idea of ‘women are inferior.’”

— Joss Whedon

147. “There is nothing more painful in the world than Aly when she makes her big eyes. She makes her big hurt eyes, there’s nothing you can do. She just kills you.”

— Joss Whedon

148. “Every kid who hated grownups becomes a grownup. Well, except the ones who died.”

— Joss Whedon

149. “Be brave. Live.”

— Joss Whedon

150. “You don’t buy a Picasso because you love the frame.”

— Joss Whedon