I am not a fan of referencing your own work when it's in a different universe than what you're doing. That, to me, is a wink at the audience, and winking isn't actually cool when you're not, like, 10. - Joss Whedon 1 Share Now -
There's a lot of anger in the Twitter-verse, as I've discovered. But there's a lot of love. - Joss Whedon 2 Share Now -
I go to movies expecting to have a whole experience. If I want a movie that doesn't end, I'll go to a French movie. That's a betrayal of trust to me. A movie has to be complete within itself; it can't just build off the first one or play variations. - Joss Whedon 3 Share Now -
Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women. - Joss Whedon 5 Share Now -
TV does a thing that film can never do. It takes you to a place that no novel written after the late 19th century can. You can just go through people's lives; it's like a marriage. - Joss Whedon 6 Share Now -
You know, I always was an early morning or late night writer. Early morning was my favorite; late night was because you had a deadline. And at four in the morning you make up some of your most absurd jokes. - Joss Whedon 7 Share Now -
My mom is a teacher, my dad was a writer for television, his dad was a writer for television, and combining those two has been sort of the goal of my life. - Joss Whedon 8 Share Now -
My mom is a teacher, my dad was a writer for television, his dad was a writer for television, and combining those two has been sort of the goal of my life. - Joss Whedon 9 Share Now -
My dad would go to work every day and write in a room full of funny people. He enjoyed it. I know great writers who find the process agonising but to me, writing has always been sheer joy. - Joss Whedon 10 Share Now -