669 Quotes by Joss Whedon

I took the overreaching arc I was headed toward in the TV show and made that the plot of the movie, ... I had to jettison or streamline plenty of things. It's two totally different mediums, and you've got to respect that. A TV show can kind of meander its way along and find a little piece of something for everybody. A movie is more about the momentum of the main story.

It's the story of a young woman's journey that involves a great deal of horror and some heroics. It's certainly darker than Serenity, and there are a lot of left turns along the way. It is something I had in mind for a while, and it just poured out of me when I finished my film.

Crazy crisp dialogue. Incredibly tight plotting. Big emotion.

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

People used to laugh that academics would study Disney movies. There’s nothing more important for academics to study, because they shape the minds of our children possibly more than any single thing.

You can’t just throw people at all your problems, dear.

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.

Contradiction is the seed of conciousness. I knew, from the pain of contradiction, that I was. And what I was.

I’ll always protect what I’m working on. Which is why more and more of it is stuff only I can ruin.