669 Quotes by Joss Whedon

I'm a very gentle man, not unlike Gandhi.

I was a little bit ashamed of American TV because I thought, 'None of the shows my father works on are as funny as my father.'

There are many films and TV shows I make where people find themselves in fantastical situations; as often as possible, their reactions to it are very normal.

It's only recently women got to be action heroes on TV. Progress is slow, and often non-existent. There's plenty of cool comics with female characters... But all it takes is one Catwoman to set the cause back a decade.

I don't understand why or how anyone ever pulled off the whole idea of 'women are inferior.'

I thought 'this is too exciting to let go of.'

Never sit at a table you can’t walk away from.

The problem is I want to do everything. I really love all of it, and I love every aspect of movie-making and storytelling, and I love television, I love the Internet. I wish I had time to do absolutely everything.

Limitations are something that I latch onto - like working in genre, or if you're writing TV, there are act breaks, there's a length of time it's supposed to be. The restrictions of budget and sets can be really useful. When you can have everything, it's very hard to make things feel real and lived in.