Joss Whedon Quotes

• 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.

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  Tags in Activism, Person

• In everything I do, men who are comfortable with powerful women are more powerful men.

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  Tags in Women

• Don’t give me songs, give me something to sing about!

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• As we all know, blinking lights means science.

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• I laugh in the face of danger. Then I hide until it goes away.

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  Topics in Fear, Humor

• Humor keeps us alive. Humor and food. Don’t forget food. You can go a week without laughing.

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• War is not just the business of death, it is the antitheses of life.

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

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  Tags in Writing, Inspiration

• Half of writing history is hiding the truth.

   

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• Don’t give people what they want, give them what they need.

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• I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I’m afraid of.

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  Tags in Explore, Afraid, Writing

• When I created Buffy, I wanted to create a female icon, but I also wanted to be very careful to surround her with men that not only have no problem with the idea of a female leader, but were in fact engaged and even attracted to the idea.

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• 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.

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  Topics in Humor

• 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.

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• That title, is one of the things I fought for. A lot of people said “But it’s stupid, and it’s the title of a comedy movie, and people won’t take it seriously,” and I’m sure there are some people who still don’t. But for the most part, people do see that we really have a quality show.

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• Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there.

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• I’m a very hard-line, angry atheist. Yet I am fascinated by the concept of devotion.

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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Joss Whedon (27)

Birth:	23rd June, 1964
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Composer, Director, Lyricist, Producer

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• 1964 - Nicolas Cage
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• 1983 - Natalie Gulbis
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Deaths

• 1984 - Alfred Kastler
• 1988 - Trevor Howard
• 1981 - William Feather
• 1944 - Lou Henry Hoover
• 1980 - Larry Williams