Quotes from Joss Whedon

I love TV in a way that I don't love any other medium.

TV's like whitewater rafting: Without rocks, there wouldn't be rapids, and it wouldn't be as much fun.

Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there.

I do have screenplays I've written that never saw the light of day, but I don't usually go back to them. When I've told a story, I want to tell another story.

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

Movies were always the goal, but I had a lot of goals. Twelve-year-old me wanted to do everything: act and sing and paint and dance.

I've been doing Shakespeare readings with my friends for years.

On one level, I must never lose touch with my audience. But I must, at some point, stop trying to get everybody to like me, and be true to the thing I think I need to say.

Remember to always be yourself.

I think 'Batman Begins' is certainly my favorite Batman movie I've seen.

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

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

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've been in this business for a long while, but it's not like I've been waiting tables. Since I started writing, I've only worked on things that I love. I've had a lot of heartbreak, but you don't become an artist and not expect that.

Never sit at a table you can't walk away from.

I've had so much success. I had something to say, I got to say it, people heard it, and they agreed. That's every artist's dream. That's the brass ring.

The misogyny that is in every culture is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of balance, and that imbalance is sucking something out of the soul of every man and woman who's confronted with it.

I tend to tell stories that have a lot of momentum; it's not like 'and then months later...' I like things where the momentum of one action rolls into the next one so everything is the sum of that.

If you're going to make a science fiction movie, then have a hover craft chase, for God's sake.

You either have to write or you shouldn't be writing. That's all.

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.

Two things that matter to me. Emotional resonance and rocket launchers.

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.

Shiny, let's be bad guys!