669 Quotes by Joss Whedon

I'm the least confident person in so many ways. But I believed that if somebody gave me the chance to tell a story, I would tell a story [well enough] that the person who gave me the chance would get their money back.

Directing is such alchemy, it's so easy to fail. And I've seen people who are great at their jobs because everybody has a go. Editors, DPs, actors, craft services guy, everybody wants to try it out but it is such a diffuse but necessary set of skills that you never know which one this person might lack.

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.

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. A movie has to be complete within itself; it can't just build off the first one or play variations.

In TV the attitude is: 'Tell me what we have and we'll build around that,' ... Feature filmmaking seems more like, 'Give me everything and then I'll choose.'

Every vampire fiction reinvents vampires to its own needs. You take what you want.

As far as I am concerned, the first episode of Buffy was the beginning of my career. It was the first time I told a story from start to finish the way I wanted.

One of my favourite sorts of actors...the rat actor. The rat actor knows his job and gets it done.

'The Sixth Sense' is fine the second time around, but honestly, the first time around, it's dazzling.