Quotes from Joss Whedon

The thing with the comics is that you have license to go down every alley your brain can think of.

In TV, there's so much compromise, it does start to grate a bit. But if you're a writer or an actor, it really is the place to be.

The more power that we have, the less human we are.

I'm Joan of Arc. I figured we had a lot in common, seeing as how I was almost burned at the stake. And plus she had that close relationship with God.

Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE.

I like to think that I'm a populist entertainer, but I'm a little bit idiosyncratic, and sometimes the networks wouldn't really roll with that.

I would love to give you a more in-depth coherent explanation of my view of the soul, and if I had one I would. The soul and my concept of it are as ephemeral as anybody's, and possibly more so.

I don't think I'm a celebrity. Maybe I'm a cult figure?

My deal with Marvel is I have a consulting deal with them as well as a contract to make 'Avengers.' That means I'll read all the scripts, I'll look at cuts.

The comic world has its own limitations, as everything does. I adore it, I respect it, but it's not going to take over all of me.

Writers are completely out of touch with reality. Writers are a crazy person. We create conflict - for a living. We do this all the time, sometimes on a weekly basis; we create horrible, incredible circumstances and then figure a way out of them. That's what we do.

I have an obligation to do press, but I don't have an obligation to stay out dancing until 3 A.M.

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

Science fiction is like a blender - you can put in any historical experience and take influences from everything you see, read or experience.

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

River Tam (Summer Glau): No power in the 'verse can stop me.

She's terse. I can be terse. Once, in flight school, I was laconic.

Don't just be yourself. Be all of yourselves. Don't just live. Be that other thing connected to death. Be life. Live all of your life. Understand it, see it, appreciate it. And have fun.

I've seen plenty of films where the projector broke. The problems that we have in the digital age are exactly the same as we had. Instead of, 'There's a hair in the gate,' it's, 'The computer ate the footage.' There will always be things like that going on. Nothing is perfect.

Very occasionally, if you pay really close attention, life doesn't suck.

Especially, I think, living in any fantasy or science fiction world means really understanding what you're seeing and reading really densely on a level that a lot of people don't bother to read.

I usually write things in my head before I ever write them down. When I write it out, usually I've already figured out what it is I'm trying to do.

I think everyone who makes movies should be forced to do television. Because you have to finish. You have to get it done, and there are a lot of decisions made just for the sake of making decisions. You do something because it's efficient and because it gets the story told and it connects to the audience.

The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn't look like there's a light at the end of the tunnel, he's going to keep digging, he's going to keep trying to do right and make up for what's gone before, just because that's who he is.