Joss Whedon

“I always enjoy conversation more if there is some substance to it - which is a just incredibly hilarious thing for me to say because for many, many years I was the guy whose only contribution to any conversation was, 'There was a funny 'Simpson's' joke about that.'”

“Recognizing power in another does not diminish your own.”

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

“What 'Scream' was great at was presenting ironic detachment and then making you actually care about the people that were having it, and juxtaposing it with their situation, all in the service of making a great horror movie. It was fresh.”

“I designed 'Buffy' to be an icon, to be an emotional experience, to be loved in a way that other shows can't be loved. Because it's about adolescence, which is the most important thing people go through in their development, becoming an adult.”

“When people say to me, 'Why are you so good at writing at women?' I say, 'Why isn't everybody?'”

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

“Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there.”

“Shiny, let's be bad guys!”

“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 loved working with 'The Avengers' cast and we had a great time, but it was a job, and they had other commitments during that job, so they would go off and do other things.”

“He's like Super Librarian, y'know? Everyone forgets, Willow, that knowledge is the ultimate weapon.”

“Ain't all buttons and charts, little albatross. Know what the first rule of flying is? Well I s'pose you do, since you already know what I'm 'bout to say.I do. But I like to hear you say it.Love. Can know all the math in the 'verse but take a boat in the air that you don't love? She'll shake you off just as sure as a turn in the worlds. Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down...tell you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens...makes her a home.”

“You learn something every time you make a mistake.”

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

“I'm a science fiction geek from birth - that's just who I am.”

“For me, the act of telling the story and showing it to somebody is almost gravy.”

“A writer is supposed to have anonymity.”

“Back in my day, which was about a week and a half ago, we took our lumps and we got back up and we cried like babies and quit and then put on weight.”

“Casting is storytelling.”