Joss Whedon Quotes

Q: Why do you kill everyone that I love?!
A: You love stupid people.

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.

Actually, I don't think of myself as being inspired to create. I can't imagine doing anything else. It's like breathing.

I laugh in the face of danger. Then I hide until it goes away.

You can attack me, you can send assassins after me....that's fine. But nobody messes with my boyfriend.

Xander: Prepare to have your spines tingled and your gooses bumped by the terrifying... Fantasia. Fantasia?
Oz: Maybe it's 'cause of all the horrific things we've seen, but, hippos wearing tutus just don't unnerve me the way they used to.
Xander: Phantasm. It was supposed to be Phantasm. Stupid video store.

Equality is not a concept...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.

Very occasionally, if you pay really close attention, life doesn't suck.

I'll take crazy over stupid any day.

People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy.

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.

Remember, always be yourself... unless you suck.

I love fantasy. I love horror. I love musicals. Whatever doesn't really happen in life is what I'm interested in. As a way of commenting on everything that does happen in life, because ultimately the only thing I'm really interested in is people.

Burn the land and boil the sea.
You can't take the sky from me.