Quotes from Joss Whedon

I'm never interested in movies where you don't care about the people you're watching, and that's my biggest quibble about horror, that kids have gotten stupider and stupider.

Horror movies don't exist unless you go and see them, and people always will.

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.

I don't have a ton of enemies. I get along with people pretty well when I'm not annoying them to death.

I spent a ton of time alone. I was raised by a feminist; I had a terrifying father and oppressively scary and mean brothers. We had a farm. The rule was between breakfast and lunch you weren't allowed to make a sound.

There's a reason Tony Stark makes fun of 'Thor,' and mentions 'Shakespeare' in the park in 'The Avengers.' It's great to play high drama and comedy alongside a modern story.

If I wrote what I really think, I would be so sad all the time. We create to fill a gap - not just to avoid the idea of dying, it's to fill some particular gap in ourselves.

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

Time is what turns kittens into cats.

Every time somebody opens their mouth they have an opportunity to do one of two things - connect or divide.

In the time of gods and monsters, what is the worth of a man?

Time for some thrillin' heroics.

I never write anything without humor, just because I like humor, but at the same time, it is a way for anything fantastical to become relatable.

I'm very much of the "make it dark, make it grim, make it tough", but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.

I think it's always important for academics to study popular culture, even if the thing they are studying is idiotic. If it's successful or made a dent in culture, then it is worthy of study to find out why.

Writers are completely out of touch with reality.

I do listen to music. Movie scores, exclusively, because it's all about mood and nonspecificity. I love the way modern movie scoring is all about nonspecificity. You know, if I shuffled the tracks from 'Inception,' I challenge you to tell me which is which.

Politics, glamor, fame - they're all mixed up together, and they always have been.

Every subsection of liberalism is always busy attacking another subsection of liberalism, because god forbid they should all band together and actually fight for the cause.

Love is for children. I owe him a debt.

I eat 'The Walking Dead' like its made of brains. Can't even watch the show, I love the book so much.

You don't buy a Picasso because you love the frame.

What I love most about icons is finding out what's behind them, exploring the price of their power.

There's a lot of anger in the Twitter-verse, as I've discovered. But there's a lot of love.