The goal is always about the next story. It's always about the thing I haven't done before. It's about learning, or it's about becoming better, and it's about whatever story grabs hold of me.

Joss Whedon

Categorized in : Stories Goal Becoming Better

Everything is so fragile. There's so much conflict, so much pain... You keep waiting for the dust to settle and then you realize this is it; the dust is your life going on. If happy comes along - that weird, unbearable delight that's actual happy - I think you have to grab it while you can. You take what you can get, 'cause it's here, and then... gone.

pain dust thinking

When you see these characters like Captain America or Thor, laughing at their own situation or about how strange they are, then you are able to accept more readily that it's fine to wear a cape. You can also accept that it's fine to be enormous and green, or to shoot arrows at aliens racing through the sky. It all makes sense if you've been able to laugh at it and with it.

racing character laughing

People only respond to fear. by Joss Whedon

People only respond to fear.

people

I've become less cynical, which is appalling but kind of cool. by Joss Whedon

I've become less cynical, which is appalling but kind of cool.

cynical kind

I'm Joan of Arc. I figured we had a lot in common, seeing as how I was almost burned at the stake. And plus she had that close relationship with God.

vampire halloween names

I am a great believer in found families and I'm not a great belie... by Joss Whedon

I am a great believer in found families and I'm not a great believer in blood.

believer found blood

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.

progress hero character

You do not want a war. You have known violence, you have suffered loss, but you have seen nothing of war. War is not just the business of death; it is the anti-thesis of life. Hope, tortured and flayed, reason, dismembered, grinning at its limbs in its lap. Decency, raped to death... You will be a murderer and more.

lap loss war

I've never watched reality shows, except for the Great British Ba... by Joss Whedon

I've never watched reality shows, except for the Great British Bake Off, which is magnificent.

british shows reality

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

powerful messages men

I'm totally cool. I'm totally calm, and I'm totally cool. My calm is exceeded only by my cool. Which is total. Here we go.

calm

I eat 'The Walking Dead' like its made of brains. Can't even watch the show, I love the book so much.

walking-dead brain book

What 'Scream' was great at was presenting ironic detachment and then making you actually care about the people that were having it, and juxtaposing it with their situation, all in the service of making a great horror movie. It was fresh.

ironic care people

Who is to say who is the villain and who is the hero? Probably th... by Joss Whedon

Who is to say who is the villain and who is the hero? Probably the dictionary.

dictionary villain hero

I don't actually have anything against anybody, unless their belief precludes everybody else's. I am an atheist and an absurdist and I have been for many years. I've actually taken a huge amount of flack for that.

atheist taken years

Paul Hollywood's "You're under baked" is even better than "You're... by Joss Whedon

Paul Hollywood's "You're under baked" is even better than "You're fired."

better-than-you hollywood

I believe the only reality is how we treat each other. The morality comes from the absence of any grander scheme, not from the presence of any grander scheme.

morality believe reality

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.

tv-shows tvs people

My soul is wrapped in harsh repose, Midnight descends in raven-colored clothes, But soft... behold! A sunlight beam Butting a swath of glimmering gleam. My heart expands, 'tis grown a bulge in it, Inspired by your beauty... Effulgent.

ravens clothes heart

I've seen [Donald Trump] appear in a film or a TV show cameo or the tabloids, and he's a grotesquely distasteful human being and always has been, always made me want to take a shower. But other people fell in love with him as a reality star. So does that mean that the entertainment industry is doing something wrong? I think reality TV answered that question a long time ago: Yes, it's doing something terribly wrong. But there's some great reality TV, and I'm not bagging on it completely.

stars mean thinking