Top 250 Joss Whedon Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Every kid who hated grownups becomes a grownup. Well, except the ones who died.”

— Joss Whedon

152. “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

153. “Be brave. Live.”

— Joss Whedon

154. “TV’s like whitewater rafting: Without rocks, there wouldn’t be rapids, and it wouldn’t be as much fun.”

— Joss Whedon

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

— Joss Whedon

156. “It’s about women. It’s about power and it’s about women and you just hate those two words in the same sentence, don’t you?”

— Joss Whedon

157. “The comic world has its own limitations, as everything does. I adore it, I respect it, but it’s not going to take over all of me.”

— Joss Whedon

158. “You can either watch TV or you can make TV.”

— Joss Whedon

159. “The goal is always about the next story. It’s always about the thing I haven’t done before. It’s about learning, or it’s about becoming better, and it’s about whatever story grabs hold of me.”

— Joss Whedon

160. “Cordelia: I personally don’t think it’s possible to come up with a crazier plan. Oz: We attack the Mayor with hummus. Cordelia: I stand corrected. Oz: Just keeping things in perspective.”

— Joss Whedon

161. “Most people don’t see Hamlet as an old bald guy.”

— Joss Whedon

162. “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

163. “You have a responsibility to listen to the dissent in yourself.”

— Joss Whedon

164. “The problem is I want to do everything. I really love all of it, and I love every aspect of movie-making and storytelling, and I love television, I love the Internet. I wish I had time to do absolutely everything.”

— Joss Whedon

165. “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

166. “Writers are completely out of touch with reality.”

— Joss Whedon

167. “I think ‘Batman Begins’ is certainly my favorite Batman movie I’ve seen.”

— Joss Whedon

168. “I think it’s not inaccurate to say that I had a perfectly happy childhood during which I was very unhappy.”

— Joss Whedon

169. “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.”

— Joss Whedon

170. “Casting is storytelling.”

— Joss Whedon

171. “Back in my day, which was about a week and a half ago, we took our lumps and we got back up and we cried like babies and quit and then put on weight.”

— Joss Whedon

172. “Science fiction is like a blender – you can put in any historical experience and take influences from everything you see, read or experience.”

— Joss Whedon

173. “Let freedom ring, unless it’s on vibrate.”

— Joss Whedon

174. “Kristen Stewart is kind of captivating; she can just stare at stuff and it works because I still want to watch it.”

— Joss Whedon

175. “All worthy work is open to interpretations the author did not intend. Art isn’t your pet – it’s your kid. It grows up and talks back to you.”

— Joss Whedon

176. “I leave the world in terrible turmoil. I come back, same turmoil. Nothing at all different. Well, outfits are a little different...”

— Joss Whedon

177. “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

178. “In other news, it’s been far too long since I gloated massively about the fact that I know what’s going to happen on Buffy and you all don’t.”

— Joss Whedon

179. “If something isn’t working, if you have a story that you’ve built and it’s blocked and you can’t figure it out, take your favorite scene, or your very best idea or set-piece, and cut it. It’s brutal, but sometimes inevitable.”

— Joss Whedon

180. “Don’t just be yourself. Be all of your selves.”

— Joss Whedon

181. “I was raised by a hardcore feminist.”

— Joss Whedon

182. “I believe we are the only sentient beings in the universe, and I believe that 500 years from now, we will still be the only sentient beings around.”

— Joss Whedon

183. “Don’t give me songs, give me something to sing about!”

— Joss Whedon

184. “I’ll always protect what I’m working on. Which is why more and more of it is stuff only I can ruin.”

— Joss Whedon

185. “I can do web, comic books, macrame, art.”

— Joss Whedon

186. “The thing with the comics is that you have license to go down every alley your brain can think of.”

— Joss Whedon

187. “If I had created reality television I would have had a much greater influence, but then I would have had to KILL MYSELF.”

— Joss Whedon

188. “What I love most about icons is finding out what’s behind them, exploring the price of their power.”

— Joss Whedon

189. “There are many films and TV shows I make where people find themselves in fantastical situations; as often as possible, their reactions to it are very normal.”

— Joss Whedon

190. “Lockheed! You found me! You are the best X-Dragon ever.”

— Joss Whedon

191. “What you cut out becomes part of the story you tell.”

— Joss Whedon

192. “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!’”

— Joss Whedon

193. “As we all know, blinking lights means science.”

— Joss Whedon

194. “I don’t want to create responsible shows with lawyers in them. I want to invade people’s dreams.”

— Joss Whedon

195. “You know, the thing that I do to waste time is think of things I want to make. That’s how my mind is employed.”

— Joss Whedon

196. “I’m a very gentle man, not unlike Gandhi.”

— Joss Whedon

197. “Every vampire fiction reinvents vampires to its own needs. You take what you want.”

— Joss Whedon

198. “Every time you work on a project, it’s a little vacation from the project you’re working on the other 23 hours. That’s the thing – it replenishes you to do something else.”

— Joss Whedon

199. “The enemy of humanism is not faith; the enemy of humanism is hate, is fear, is ignorance, is the darker part of man that is in every humanist, every person, in the world. That is the thing we have to fight. Faith is something we have to embrace. Faith in God is believing absolutely in something with no proof whatsoever. Faith in humanity means believing absolutely in something with a huge amount of proof to the contrary.”

— Joss Whedon

200. “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