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Joss Whedon Quotes | Quotes said by Joss Whedon

  • Joss Whedon Quote #1

    Ain't all buttons and charts, little albatross. Know what the first rule of flying is? Well I s'pose you do, since you already know what I'm 'bout to say.

    I do. But I like to hear you say it.

    Love. Can know all the math in the 'verse but take a boat in the air that you don't love? She'll shake you off just as sure as a turn in the worlds. Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down...tell you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens...makes her a home.

  • Joss Whedon Quote #2

    All I ask is this: Do something. Try something. Speaking out, showing up, writing a letter, a check, a strongly worded e-mail. Pick a cause – there are few unworthy ones. And nudge yourself past the brink of tacit support to action. Once a month, once a year, or just once...Even just learning enough about a subject so you can speak against an opponent eloquently makes you an unusual personage. Start with that. Any one of you would have cried out, would have intervened, had you been in that crowd in Bashiqa. Well thanks to digital technology, you’re all in it now.

  • Joss Whedon Quote #3

    All worthy work is open to interpretations the author did not intend. Art isn't your pet -- it's your kid. It grows up and talks back to you.

  • Joss Whedon Quote #4

    Anything can be good. Even Last Action Hero could’ve been good. There’s an idea somewhere in almost any movie : if you can find something that you love, then you can do it. If you can’t, it doesn’t matter how skilful you are...

  • Joss Whedon Quote #5

    As we all know, blinking lights means science.

  • Joss Whedon Quote #6

    At the end of the day I have many answers for it. It has to do with my mom, who was an extraordinary woman, and a great feminist. It has to do with the people in my life. It has to do with a lot of different things, but -- I don't know! Because I'm not just writing from the female characters for other people. I have a desire to see them in our culture -- that was not met for most of my childhood. Except occasionally by James Cameron.

    [From the 2011 San Diego Comic Con, in response to being asked why he writes strong female characters.]

  • Joss Whedon Quote #7

    Back in my day, which was about a week and a half ago, we took our lumps and we got back up and we cried like babies and quit and then put on weight.

  • Joss Whedon Quote #8

    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.

  • Joss Whedon Quote #9

    Because to me, there is no logic of any kind behind misogyny. Therefore, it’s funny, because it’s so completely random to me. It’s senseless.

  • Joss Whedon Quote #10

    Bottom line is, even if you see 'em coming, you're not ready for the big moments. No one asks for their life to change, not really. But it does. So what are we, helpless? Puppets? No. The big moments are gonna come. You can't help that. It's what you do afterwards that counts. That's when you find out who you are.

  • Joss Whedon Quote #11

    Do you love me?
    What?
    Do you?
    I love you. I don't know if I trust you.
    Maybe you shouldn't do either.
    Maybe I'm the one who should decide!

  • Joss Whedon Quote #12

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

  • Joss Whedon Quote #13

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

  • Joss Whedon Quote #14

    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, and the misogyny that is in every culture is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of balance, and that imbalance is sucking something out of the soul of every man and woman who's confronted with it. We need equality. Kinda now.

  • Joss Whedon Quote #15

    Every day's a negotiation and sometimes it's done with guns.

  • Joss Whedon Quote #16

    Everyone has their first date and the object is to hide your flaws. And then you're in a relationship, and it's all about hiding your disappointment. And then, once you're married, it's about hiding your sins.

  • Joss Whedon Quote #17

    Everything I do in its essence is about helplessness. That's the story I want to tell all the time. It's the story I wanted to live - somebody who appears to be, or is, weak becoming stronger.

  • Joss Whedon Quote #18

    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

  • Joss Whedon Quote #19

    Everything we do really is just a little marker on the long road to death. And sometimes that’s overwhelmingly depressing to me, and sometimes it makes me feel kinship and forgiveness. We’ve all got the same ending to the story. The way we make that story more elaborate, I got to respect.

  • Joss Whedon Quote #20

    He's like Super Librarian, y'know? Everyone forgets, Willow, that knowledge is the ultimate weapon.

  • Joss Whedon Quote #21

    Horror movies don't exist unless you go and see them, and people always will.

  • Joss Whedon Quote #22

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

  • Joss Whedon Quote #23

    I also don't trust Caribou anymore. They're out there, on the tundra, waiting... Something's going down. I'm right about this.

  • Joss Whedon Quote #24

    I also felt that Ron and Hermione would have gotten divorced. I'm sorry, I just do. The end of Harry Potter did feel ultimately to me...just the fact everybody had married everybody. The books were so real and so grounded in what things are really like when you're that age, she nailed that so beautifully. And then there was this slightly fantastical ending. I know that was there for her to say, 'Really, I mean it, no more books,' but you do sort of go, people who were in a war are different from people who haven't been, and how does it affect them? But am I going to second-guess my favorite writer? I think not.

  • Joss Whedon Quote #25

    I always enjoy conversation more if there is some substance to it - which is a just incredibly hilarious thing for me to say because for many, many years I was the guy whose only contribution to any conversation was, 'There was a funny 'Simpson's' joke about that.'

  • Joss Whedon Quote #26

    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 Quote #27

    I am a leaf on the wind - watch how I soar

  • Joss Whedon Quote #28

    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 Quote #29

    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 Quote #30

    I hope I’m being clear, I didn’t say I hate feminists, that would be weird. I said I hate feminist. I’m talking about the word.

    I have the privilege living my life inside of words and part of being a writer is creating entire universes, and that's beautiful, but part of being a writer is also living in the very smallest part of every word.

    ...But the word feminist, it doesn't sit with me, it doesn't add up. I want to talk about my problem that I have with it.

    ...Ist in it's meaning is also a problem for me. Because you can't be born an ist. It's not natural... So feminist includes the idea that believing men and women to be equal, believing all people to be people, is not a natural state. That we don't emerge assuming that everybody in the human race is a human, that the idea of equality is just an idea that's imposed on us. That we are indoctrinated with it, that it's an agenda...
    ...My problem with feminist is not the word. It's the question. Are you now, or have you ever been, a feminist? The great Katy Perry once said—I'm paraphrasing—I'm not a feminist but I like it when women are strong....Don't know why she feels the need to say the first part, but listening to the word and thinking about it, I realize I do understand. This question that lies before us is one that should lie behind us. The word is problematic for me because there's another word that we're missing...

    ...When you say racist, you are saying that is a negative thing. That is a line that we have crossed. Anything on the side of that line is shameful, is on the wrong side of history. And that is a line that we have crossed in terms of gender but we don't have the word for it...
    ...I start thinking about the fact that we have this word when we're thinking about race that says we have evolved beyond something and we don't really have this word for gender. Now you could argue sexism, but I'd say that's a little specific. People feel removed from sexism. ‘I'm not a sexist, but I'm not a feminist.' They think there's this fuzzy middle ground. There's no fuzzy middle ground. You either believe that women are people or you don't. It's that simple.

    ...You don’t have to hate someone to destroy them. You just have to not get it.

    ...My pitch is this word. ‘Genderist.’ I would like this word to become the new racist. I would like a word that says there was a shameful past before we realized that all people were created equal. And we are past that. And every evolved human being who is intelligent and educated and compassionate and to say I don't believe that is unacceptable. And Katy Perry won't say, I'm not a feminist but I like strong women, she'll say, I'm not a genderist but sometimes I like to dress up pretty. And that'll be fine.

    ...This is how we understand society. The word racism didn't end racism, it contextualized it in a way that we still haven't done with this issue.

    ...I say with gratitude but enormous sadness, we will never not be fighting. And I say to everybody on the other side of that line who believe that women are to be bought and trafficked or ignored...we will never not be fighting. We will go on, we will always work this issue until it doesn't need to be worked anymore.

    ...Is this idea of genderist going to do something? I don't know. I don't think that I can change the world. I just want to punch it up a little.

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