Joss Whedon

“I've never met a well-adjusted person. It's weird.”

“Part of making TV is the process - you just have to churn it out.”

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

“Always be yourself... unless you suck.”

“Personally, the NSA collecting data on me freaks me out. It totally freaks me out. And yet I'm from the generation that wants to put a GPS in their kids so I always know where they are.”

“Twelve-year-old me wanted to do everything: act and sing and paint and dance.”

“I like to think that I'm a populist entertainer, but I'm a little bit idiosyncratic, and sometimes the networks wouldn't really roll with that.”

“Why do you write strong female characters?Because you're still asking me that question.”

“I was a little bit ashamed of American TV because I thought, 'None of the shows my father works on are as funny as my father.'”

“If every vampire who said he was at The Crucifixion, was actually there, it would have been like Woodstock . . .”

“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.”

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FRIKKIN' SHOW. I totally shoulda took the road that had all those people on it. Damn.”

“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.”

“Those of us who write spend our entire lives in an endless English class.”

“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. That's a betrayal of trust to me. A movie has to be complete within itself; it can't just build off the first one or play variations.”

“A great scientist is more open to a new idea than almost anybody.”

“A lot of people who saw 'The Avengers' didn't read comic books, don't like comic book movies, and enjoyed it. That was huge for me.”

“When I created Buffy, I wanted to create a female icon, but I also wanted to be very careful to surround her with men that not only have no problem with the idea of a female leader, but were in fact engaged and even attracted to the idea.”

“Don’t give people what they want, give them what they need.”

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