Joss Whedon
"Angel, when I look into the future, all I see is you! All I want is you." "I know the feeling."Collection: Angel
Do you love me? What? Do you? I love you. I don't know if I trust you. Maybe you shouldn't do either. Maybe I'm the one who should decide!Collection: Love You
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.Collection: Thinking
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?Collection: Hate
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.Collection: Hurt
I'm the least confident person in so many ways. But I believed that if somebody gave me the chance to tell a story, I would tell a story [well enough] that the person who gave me the chance would get their money back.Collection: Writing
You can't just throw people at all your problems, dear.Collection: People
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.Collection: Writing
Come a day there won’t be room for naughty men like us to slip about at all. This job goes south, there well may not be another. So here is us, on the raggedy edge. Don’t push me, and I won’t push you. Dong le ma?Collection: Jobs
You go to movies to see people you love suffer - that's why you go to the movies. You don't go to see a movie about a guy who already knows he has a wonderful life.Collection: Writing
One of my favourite sorts of actors...the rat actor. The rat actor knows his job and gets it done.Collection: Jobs
I set out in television with one simple goal: to purchase a Russian bride. Didn't work out. Immigration stuff - it's complicated.Collection: Simple
I'm not a control freak - I'm a control enthusiast.Collection: Freak
If I had created reality television I would have had a much greater influence, but then I would have had to KILL MYSELF.Collection: Reality
You know what? I was wrong. You are an idiot. My life happens to, on occasion, suck beyond the telling of it. Sometimes more than I can handle.Collection: Beautiful
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.Collection: Long
Tonight sucks. And look at me. Look at - look at stupid Buffy. Too dumb for college, and-and-and freak Buffy, too strong for construction work. And-and my job at the magic shop? I was bored to tears even before the hour that wouldn't end. And the only person that I can even stand to be around is a... neutered vampire who cheats at kitten poker.Collection: Strong
If the apocalypse comes...beep me!Collection: Funny
Everyone has their first date and the object is to hide your flaws. And then you're in a relationship, and it's all about hiding your disappointment. And then, once you're married, it's about hiding your sins.Collection: Disappointment
No one's going to go see the story of Othello going to get a peaceful divorce.Collection: Divorce
They can take everything away from me, but they can never take my pride, unless I somehow get some.Collection: Pride
There are some things I can just smell. It's like a sixth sense." "Well, actually, that would be one of the five.Collection: Smell
Half of writing history is hiding the truth.Collection: Truth
I am a huge fan of what Marvel has established. But when they first came to me, Thor and Captain America were not even close to being finished. I thought to myself, 'Okay, you have all these moving parts, but how can you possibly bring them together?' Iron Man, Hulk, Thor and Captain America don't seem like they could co-exist, and ultimately that is what intrigued me and made me think, 'This can be done and this should be done.' You can't put these characters in a movie together without a certain amount of humor. It's an inoculation against the unreality.Collection: Moving
"'Come on, guys, I'm the leader of a whole movie...!' I tell when I want people to fear and respect me. Not wildly effective."Collection: People
I loved teaching and I did a lot of work as a teacher's assistant in college, and my favorite experience was basically getting a laugh from a bunch of people because they had just understood something. Because I had shown them something they hadn't seen before, and it amused them. That's the combo platter. That's a perfect moment.Collection: Teacher
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.Collection: Wish
I think Spider-Man [film], the first one particularly, really figured out the formula of, "Oh, tell the story that they told in the comic. It was compelling. That's why it's iconic."Collection: Men
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.Collection: Heart
It's a fun thing to do, to put yourself in the service of something if you think you can add an interpretation. It's no different than any other storytelling.Collection: Fun
Inevitably it's going to cause some terrible misogynist backlash, and I assume we'll look forward to eight years of jaw-droppingly sexist statements - the way we listened to eight years of racism around the presidency. It will be an argument before it's a conversation. But at least it's being had.Collection: Eight
The fact of the matter is fame predates even the age of cinema. There's always been fame, there's always been the caveman who's prettier or killed a bigger lion, or somebody started a story about a guy.Collection: Guy
Politics, glamor, fame - they're all mixed up together, and they always have been.Collection: Together
When I read [the script] and saw that it was my fanboy wet dream of an Avengers script and that [Agent] Coulson was a big part of it, that was the great day for me. I just drove around the streets with the script in the other seat, giggling.Collection: Dream
Everything has been for the [President] election for the last couple of months. Since the Democratic National Convention, it's been a dead run to get out as much content as possible and do as much as possible. Then, I go back to writing the screenplay I was working on, which is an original piece - a period piece that I will hopefully finish a couple of months after that, and hopefully I can convince some unsuspecting fool studio to buy.Collection: Running
The fact that a TV star can become president should be old news since [Ronald] Reagan, and old news since the Nixon-Kennedy debates - which the famous story, whether or not you agree, is that if you listened on the radio, Nixon won; if you listened on TV, Kennedy won.Collection: Stars
The fact of the matter is fame predates even the age of cinema.Collection: Age
I am a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar!Collection: Firefly
There’s a fine line between support and stalking and let’s all stay on the right side of that.Collection: Support
You either believe women are people or you don't. It's that simple.Collection: Believe
Everybody who made it through adolescence is a hero.Collection: Hero
My people - before I was changed - they exchanged this as a sign of devotion. It's a Claddagh ring. The hands represent friendship; the crown represents loyalty... and the heart... Well, you know... Wear it with the heart pointing towards you. It means you belong to somebody. Like this.Collection: Loyalty
How did you find me here? If I was blind, I would see you. Stay with me. Forever. That's the whole point. I'll never leave. Not even if you kill me.Collection: Forever
In my generation, there was a single girl given the strength and skill to fight the spread of darkness...but in your generation, there are nearly two thousand with the powers of the slayer, and not all of them have chosen to use their newfound abilities conscientiously.Collection: Girl
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.Collection: Writing
I didn't know feminism was actually a thing until I left home and found out the country didn't run the way my mom's house did.Collection: Mom
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.Collection: Work
That girl will rain destruction down on you and your ship. She is an albatross, Captain. Way I remember it, albatross was a ship's good luck, 'til some idiot killed it. [to Inara] Yes, I've read a poem. Try not to faint.Collection: Girl