Top 250 Joss Whedon Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “I’m a science fiction geek from birth – that’s just who I am.”

— Joss Whedon

202. “I write to give myself strength.”

— Joss Whedon

203. “I’m well aware when they fired the starting gun I was halfway down the track, but I still ran as fast as I could for 25 years.”

— Joss Whedon

204. “Someone else’s loss is my chocolatey goodness.”

— Joss Whedon

205. “I still believe that even though ‘The Empire Strikes Back’ is better in innumerable ways than ‘Star Wars,’ ‘Star Wars’ wins.”

— Joss Whedon

206. “Vampire Willow: “Bored now.”

— Joss Whedon

207. “I wish more people would take the extraordinary talent they have and just let their id go because that’s what we discovered. We discovered that the sillier we got, the more people believed that we were speaking from our hearts.”

— Joss Whedon

208. “I am a fan of sequels even though they are inevitably awful.”

— Joss Whedon

209. “Anything can be good. Even Last Action Hero could’ve been good. There’s an idea somewhere in almost any movie : if you can find something that you love, then you can do it. If you can’t, it doesn’t matter how skilful you are...”

— Joss Whedon

210. “In production, in the first couple of weeks of production, that it was more like making an internet musical.”

— Joss Whedon

211. “As far as I am concerned, the first episode of Buffy was the beginning of my career. It was the first time I told a story from start to finish the way I wanted.”

— Joss Whedon

212. “You can’t be a storyteller and a speechwriter at the same time.”

— Joss Whedon

213. “Buffy loves Angel. He loves her. And I love Ho Hos.”

— Joss Whedon

214. “I write to be the characters that I am not.”

— Joss Whedon

215. “There’s a lot of anger in the Twitter-verse, as I’ve discovered. But there’s a lot of love.”

— Joss Whedon

216. “I’m never interested in movies where you don’t care about the people you’re watching, and that’s my biggest quibble about horror, that kids have gotten stupider and stupider.”

— Joss Whedon

217. “It’s not any huge secret that I’m an atheist.”

— Joss Whedon

218. “The networks have a particular agenda, a particular model and structure. It doesn’t have anything to do with content. This is not a dis on them – they are a business model, run by business people.”

— Joss Whedon

219. “Actors wait tables, directors work at video stores.”

— Joss Whedon

220. “Making ‘The Avengers’ was very important to me, but it was also extremely arduous. I missed my friends and I missed my home, so I decided to throw them all on camera, which is the only way I seem to know to relate to people.”

— Joss Whedon

221. “Equality is not a concept. It’s not something we should be striving for. It’s a necessity. Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women, and the misogyny that is in every culture is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of balance, and that imbalance is sucking something out of the soul of every man and woman who’s confronted with it. We need equality. Kinda now.”

— Joss Whedon

222. “I always watch what I say. I am what I say.”

— Joss Whedon

223. “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.”

— Joss Whedon

224. “I’m not big on regret. It’s not on my schedule.”

— Joss Whedon

225. “Everything I do is going to contain the message that men who are going to be comfortable with powerful women are going to be more powerful men.”

— Joss Whedon

226. “The rules are very important in a horror movie.”

— Joss Whedon

227. “Beautiful revelations of power are often written by the guy who got kicked around and didn’t have any power.”

— Joss Whedon

228. “Every writer loves the idea of being able to go in and fix a problem and then leave without obligation. It’s fun!”

— Joss Whedon

229. “Don’t go bigger, go deeper.”

— Joss Whedon

230. “We had the camera locked, but not the location of the sun.”

— Joss Whedon

231. “I am the immaculate embodiment of worlds.”

— Joss Whedon

232. “Because to me, there is no logic of any kind behind misogyny. Therefore, it’s funny, because it’s so completely random to me. It’s senseless.”

— Joss Whedon

233. “Everybody who labels themselves a ‘nerd’ isn’t some giant person locked in a cubbyhole who’s never seen the opposite sex. Especially with the way the Internet is now, I think that definition is getting a little more diffuse.”

— Joss Whedon

234. “It’s very important that we start creating new content again. We can only build on nostalgia so much before we have nothing left to build on.”

— Joss Whedon

235. “I get recognized just often enough to keep my ego bouncing along, but not so much that I can’t go places.”

— Joss Whedon

236. “I don’t think I’m like Shakespeare.”

— Joss Whedon

237. “A writer is supposed to have anonymity.”

— Joss Whedon

238. “In TV, there’s so much compromise, it does start to grate a bit. But if you’re a writer or an actor, it really is the place to be.”

— Joss Whedon

239. “What Sarah brings to the part is her intelligence, at the same time, she’s got that hormonal, idiosyncratic goofiness that makes Buffy not just the Terminator.”

— Joss Whedon

240. “I keep thinking they’re gonna call me. I keep thinking they’re gonna crunch the numbers and think, oh, we can make money with this! And they don’t.”

— Joss Whedon

241. “I respect the rules of TV, the rules of keeping things commercial and interesting and pop-y and fun.”

— Joss Whedon

242. “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.”

— Joss Whedon

243. “Veronica solves little puzzles because she, like all of us, cannot unravel the bigger ones.”

— Joss Whedon

244. “To forgive is an act of compassion... It’s not done because people deserve it. It’s done because they need it.”

— Joss Whedon

245. “I don’t think I’m a celebrity. Maybe I’m a cult figure?”

— Joss Whedon

246. “I wanted to drag Shakespeare from obscurity. I’ve been a fan my whole life.”

— Joss Whedon

247. “Contradiction is the seed of conciousness. I knew, from the pain of contradiction, that I was. And what I was.”

— Joss Whedon

248. “I never tire of the heroes that I knew growing up.”

— Joss Whedon

249. “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.”

— Joss Whedon

250. “Life’s not a song. Life isn’t bliss, life is just this. It’s living. You’ll get along. The pain that you feel can only heal by living. You have to go on living. So one of us is living.”

— Joss Whedon