Joss Whedon
Two things that matter to me. Emotional resonance and rocket launchers.Collection: Emotional
Don't give me songs, give me something to sing about!Collection: Song
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.Collection: Girl
The one thing a creator can bring to the table when everybody else has all the money and power is centeredness and the ability to walk away. Never sit at a table you can't walk away from.Collection: Power
This is something that I do consider to be good advice: I took my first paycheck and I put it in the goddamn bank. Then I took my second paycheck and put it in the goddamn bank. I had seen the roller coaster of my father's career - top of the world, then unemployed - and I never wanted to take a job because I needed money.Collection: Money
If nothing we do matters... , then all that matters is what we doCollection: Atheism
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.Collection: World
The news isn't there to tell you what happened. It's there to tell you what it wants you to hear or what it thinks you want to hear.Collection: Thinking
You are talking crazy-person talk. Put your words in word places please.Collection: Crazy
Time is what turns kittens into cats.Collection: Cat
As we all know, blinking lights means science.Collection: Mean
I write to be the characters that I am not.Collection: Writing
Sometimes people are layered like that. There's something totally different underneath than what's on the surface. But sometimes, there's a third, even deeper level, and that one is the same as the top surface one. Like with pie.Collection: Pie
I don't actually have anything against anybody, unless their belief precludes everybody else's. I am an atheist and an absurdist and I have been for many years. I've actually taken a huge amount of flack for that.Collection: Atheist
It's not enough to bash in heads. You've got to bash in minds.Collection: Mind
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.Collection: Tv Shows
War is not just the business of death, it is the antitheses of life.Collection: War
I have had a dream my whole life... and it was not this good.Collection: Dream
Beautiful revelations of power are often written by the guy who got kicked around and didn’t have any power.Collection: Beautiful
If you can't do something smart, do something right.Collection: Smart
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.Collection: Sunday
I generally think that Hillary Clinton is a good egg and a good politician.Collection: Thinking
Men not only don't get what's important about what women are capable of, but in fact they fear it, and envy it, and want to throw stones at it, because it's the thing they can't have.Collection: Men
Basically that you can do anything. If you pool your resources,and just give up the idea that you're going to act like a normal person or sleep, if you want it hard enough and do it well enough, it happens. A lot of really talented people either sort of get crushed under the wheel of the movie studio system or desperately try and get their next gig in TV. I understand why, because we've all got to put food on the table and the brass ring is out there, we'd all like to be making the Emmy-winning shows and the blockbusters and all that, but at the same time you could be doing stuff yourself.Collection: Giving Up
Women all live a double standard, but this is actually sort of a beautifully grotesque parody of it. There's a weird kind of joy that I have in seeing [Hillary Clinton] trounce this essence of male bullshit.Collection: Essence
I'm more intrigued by things that I haven't really conceived of yet. I have the luxury of being able to think: "I've never done a ballet or an animated film myself." There are certain things that I feel I'd love to. I just want to keep trying new things and seeing if I'm any good at them, and if I'm not, then at least learning that. I definitely think I'm more interested in what medium I can explore right now than any specific story.Collection: Thinking
That's a very complicated issue [with Donal Trump supporters]. There's things going on with people that we're not privy to, we don't understand. These aren't just a bunch of bad people. That isn't how it works.Collection: Issues
The more power that we have, the less human we are.Collection: Humans
I don't know video games.The last video game I played, apart from Dance Dance Revolution at Jeremy's house, which I was very good at - Scarlett [Johansson] and I will always have "Billie Jean" - was Super Mario Kart on the Super Nintendo. I'm from the Dark Ages.Collection: Dark
Most people don't see Hamlet as an old bald guy.Collection: People
The Hulk is the most difficult Marvel property because it's always about balance. Is he a monster? Is he a hero? Are you going to root for a protagonist who spends all his time trying to stop the reason you came to the movie from happening? It's always a danceCollection: Hero
Redemption is something you have to fight for in a very personal, down-dirty way. Some of our characters lose that, some stray from that, and some regain it.Collection: Dirty
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.Collection: Hero
Live all of your life. Understand it, see it, appreciate it. And have fun.Collection: Graduation
You either have to write or you shouldn't be writing. That's all.Collection: Writing
Psychic, though? That sounds like something out of science fiction. We live in a space ship, dear.Collection: Firefly
He's like Super Librarian, y'know? Everyone forgets, Willow, that knowledge is the ultimate weapon.Collection: Weapons
Writers are completely out of touch with reality. Writers are crazy [people]. We create conflict - for a living. We do this all the time, sometimes on a weekly basis, we create horrible, incredible circumstances and then figure a way out of them. That's what we do.Collection: Crazy
Recognizing power in another does not diminish your own.Collection: Character
I write for fanboy moments. I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of. I write to do all the things the viewers want too. So the intensity of the fan response is enormously gratifying. It means I hit a nerve.Collection: Writing
I'll take crazy over stupid any day.Collection: Crazy
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.Collection: Inspiring
If you think that happiness means total peace, you will never be happy. Peace comes from the acceptance of the part of you that can never be at peace. It will always be in conflict. If you accept that, everything gets a lot better.Collection: Inspirational
People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy.Collection: Writing
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.Collection: Humanity
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.Collection: Doe
I think the Trump thing is particularly egregious, and I think he's as much a product of the GOP lie machine in the era of Roger Ailes as he is of television. And also, of the Twitter era. Of the everything-is-as-reductive-as-it-can-be. To me, the most telling thing is we have a man who cannot complete a sentence. Certainly could never get to 140 characters, or past it. He thinks in tiny little bursts - the way he tweets.Collection: Lying
I think Hillary Clinton is vastly intelligent and good-hearted and extremely qualified.Collection: Intelligent
There's some great reality TV, and I'm not bagging on it completely.Collection: Reality