Joss Whedon

Writer

194 Quotes

What I do like is hiking. And that's what filmmaking is. It's a hike. It's challenging and exhausting, and you don't know what the terrain is going to be or necessarily even which direction you're going in... but it sure is beautiful.

The secret to multitasking is that it isn't actually multitasking. It's just extreme focus and organization.

I have a pathological fear of confrontation. I'm working on that.

You learn something every time you make a mistake.

I don't understand why or how anyone ever pulled off the whole idea of 'women are inferior.'

I also don't trust Caribou anymore. They're out there, on the tundra, waiting... Something's going down. I'm right about this.

I never give up on anything, because you come back around, and suddenly the thing you thought you'd never do is relevant.

I always was an early-morning or late-night writer. Early morning was my favorite; late night was because you had a deadline. And at four in the morning, you make up some of your most absurd jokes.

I didn't study writing. I didn't write anything substantial until I got to California.

I was not popular in school, and I was definitely not a ladies' man. And I had a very painful adolescence, because it was all very strange to me. It wasn't like I got beat up, but the humiliation and isolation, and the existential 'God, I exist, and nobody cares' of being a teenager were extremely pronounced for me.

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.

Writers are completely out of touch with reality.

I hate it when people talk about Buffy as being campy... I hate camp, I don't enjoy dumb TV. I believe Aaron Spelling has single-handedly lowered SAT scores.

I'm not big on regret; I don't spend a lot of time on it.

You can't be a storyteller and a speechwriter at the same time.

I don't think I'm a celebrity. Maybe I'm a cult figure?

I have an obligation to do press, but I don't have an obligation to stay out dancing until 3 A.M.

I'm a very gentle man, not unlike Gandhi.

I kept telling my mom that reading comic books would pay off.

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.

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