Quotes from Joss Whedon

Running a TV show is always running a TV show; it's never not running a TV show.

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.

You know, the thing that I do to waste time is think of things I want to make. That's how my mind is employed.

I don't have a particular ambition in any medium. I just want to keep telling stories. If somebody pays me, also good.

I got a bunch of people together to talk about doing a lot and decided that I really want to throw my hand in and do as much as I can.

I've seen [Trump] appear in a film or a TV show cameo or the tabloids, and he's a grotesquely distasteful human being and always has been, always made me want to take a shower.

If you try to multitask in the classic sense of doing two things at once, what you end up doing is quasi-tasking. It's like being with children. You have to give it your full attention for however much time you have, and then you have to give something else your full attention.

Soon, I will be 'King of all Hollywoodland.'

I don't want the giant ego. I don't want to become Kevin Costner, singing on the soundtrack to The Postman.

There are two things that I cannot resist: one is musicals and the other is a spaceship in trouble. But I am smart enough not to combine the two things.

I just love language. I mean, I love it. I love stage directions. Any opportunity to write. I hadn't written in so long, I get very crazy and miserable. I - it's like not seeing my kids: I can't do it for very long.

You learn something every time you make a mistake.

My absolute favorite part of Comic-Con is seeing, like, a 'Mass Effect' guy hanging out with a 'Sailor Moon,' and they're just having a great time.

I'll always protect what I'm working on. Which is why more and more of it is stuff only I can ruin.

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.

I love fantasy. I love horror. I love musicals. Whatever doesn't really happen in life is what I'm interested in. As a way of commenting on everything that does happen in life, because ultimately the only thing I'm really interested in is people.

The two things that matter the most to me: emotional resonance and rocket launchers. Party of Five, a brilliant show, and often made me cry uncontrollably, suffered ultimately from a lack of rocket launchers.

Ultimately what I end up writing about is helplessness and the flipside of that, empowerment.

There are two things that interest me - and they're both power, ultimately. One is not having it and one is abusing it.

The master plan does not have a master plan. Television ultimately finds itself, and after it finds itself, it finds itself changing.

I always tend to think just left of center, to remove myself from the world by one step. It is very freeing, and it's a particular way of coming at stories and looking at them that I find the most beautiful stuff that I know comes from, ultimately.

I still believe that even though 'The Empire Strikes Back' is better in innumerable ways than 'Star Wars,' 'Star Wars' wins.

Recognizing power in another does not diminish your own.

Most of the dialogue in 'Speed' is mine, and a bunch of the characters. That was actually pretty much a good experience. I have quibbles. I also have the only poster left with my name still on it. Getting arbitrated off the credits was un-fun.