Quotes from Joss Whedon

I hate it when people talk about Buffy as being campy... I hate camp, I don't enjoy dumb TV. I believe Aaron Spelling has single-handedly lowered SAT scores.

If somebody comes up to me, it's because they're moved by something I'm moved by. I've never taken a job I didn't love... So when somebody's coming up to me, or they're writing, they're in the same space I am in.

The musicals that I love on stage are generally meant for the stage.

We need narrative; it feeds us in a particular way, and deconstructing it completely before you've actually experienced it, I think it leaves us unfed.

I don't like uncertainty. I don't play poker. I don't like bluffing.

I never tire of the heroes that I knew growing up. The fun is not that much different from doing a television show: You're stuck with a certain set of rules, and then, rather than trying to break them, it's just trying to peel away and see what's underneath them. That to me is really fun.

I loved teaching and I did a lot of work as a teacher's assistant in college, and my favorite experience was basically getting a laugh from a bunch of people because they had just understood something.

Equality is not a concept. It's not something we should be striving for. It's a necessity. Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women.

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

There's not going to be a 'Buffy' season nine on television.

I think it's not inaccurate to say that I had a perfectly happy childhood during which I was very unhappy.

Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.

Everything I do is going to contain the message that men who are going to be comfortable with powerful women are going to be more powerful men

I don't understand why or how anyone ever pulled off the whole idea of 'women are inferior.'

If you're someone who geniunally believes that women don't deserve or aren't as much as men, you're like the plague. On the big history chart, you're the plague....It's just pointless and deadly.

Men not only don't get what's important about what women are capable of, but in fact they fear it, and envy it, and want to throw stones at it, because it's the thing they can't have.

It's about women. It's about power and it's about women and you just hate those two words in the same sentence, don't you?

The only bitterness I had is: Where is the conversation on gender? That's been going on since there have been men and women, and still we're not hearing about what they're going through.

Women all live a double standard.

I was never a games night guy, but at some point, social interaction starts to freak me out. So when there's a point, it's easier for me to see the people I love and hang out and try to have fun.

I love to write. I love it. I mean there's nothin in the world I like better, and that includes sex, probably because I'm so very bad at it.

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

Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women.

Casting is storytelling.