You know, I always was an early morning or late night writer. Early morning was my favorite; late night was because you had a deadline. And at four in the morning you make up some of your most absurd jokes. – Joss Whedon
I’ve been to two festivals in my life, and I’ve never been to Toronto. I haven’t really been making festival movies. This is new territory for me. – Joss Whedon
There’s a lot of anger in the Twitter-verse, as I’ve discovered. But there’s a lot of love. – Joss Whedon
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.’ – Joss Whedon
I love a straightforward character. I am the guy who loves Cyclops on the ‘X-Men’, because he is square. – Joss Whedon
I was never a games night guy, but at some point, social interaction starts to freak me out. So when there’s a point, it’s easier for me to see the people I love and hang out and try to have fun. – Joss Whedon
I think there’s a possibility that comic book movies are getting a tiny bit better on the one hand because they’re no longer made by executives, who are, you know, ninety-year-old bald tailors with cigars, going, ‘The kids love this!’ – Joss Whedon
If somebody comes up to me, it’s because they’re moved by something I’m moved by. I’ve never taken a job I didn’t love… So when somebody’s coming up to me, or they’re writing, they’re in the same space I am in. – Joss Whedon
What I love most about icons is finding out what’s behind them, exploring the price of their power. – Joss Whedon
I always enjoy conversation more if there is some substance to it – which is a just incredibly hilarious thing for me to say because for many, many years I was the guy whose only contribution to any conversation was, ‘There was a funny ‘Simpson’s’ joke about that.’ – Joss Whedon
My mom is a teacher, my dad was a writer for television, his dad was a writer for television, and combining those two has been sort of the goal of my life. – Joss Whedon
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. – Joss Whedon
The fact is some people really love my work, some people not so much, but at the end of the day, I don’t want anybody coming out of the movie thinking about me. – Joss Whedon
I don’t tend to write straight dramas where real life just impinges. But because I don’t, when I do, it is very interesting to slap people in the face with just an absolute of life. – Joss Whedon
I love to write. I love it. I mean there’s nothin in the world I like better, and that includes sex, probably because I’m so very bad at it. – Joss Whedon
I eat ‘The Walking Dead’ like its made of brains. Can’t even watch the show, I love the book so much. – Joss Whedon
The only way to real mature love is to get past the tropes of what we consider ‘romance.’ – Joss Whedon
I have abused language. I love it, and I abuse it… I don’t write just to be clever. But sometimes I do. And if you don’t have an understanding of the language, then the way in which it’s bent doesn’t actually register. – Joss Whedon
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. – Joss Whedon
I did my English A level in England, and we studied Shakespeare. I had great, great high school teachers, and we parsed the text within an inch of its life. – Joss Whedon
My dad would go to work every day and write in a room full of funny people. He enjoyed it. I know great writers who find the process agonising but to me, writing has always been sheer joy. – Joss Whedon
I’ve been in this business for a long while, but it’s not like I’ve been waiting tables. Since I started writing, I’ve only worked on things that I love. I’ve had a lot of heartbreak, but you don’t become an artist and not expect that. – Joss Whedon
I just love language. I mean, I love it. I love stage directions. Any opportunity to write. I hadn’t written in so long, I get very crazy and miserable. I – it’s like not seeing my kids: I can’t do it for very long. – Joss Whedon
I do listen to music. Movie scores, exclusively, because it’s all about mood and nonspecificity. I love the way modern movie scoring is all about nonspecificity. You know, if I shuffled the tracks from ‘Inception,’ I challenge you to tell me which is which. – Joss Whedon
I would love to give you a more in-depth coherent explanation of my view of the soul, and if I had one I would. The soul and my concept of it are as ephemeral as anybody’s, and possibly more so. – Joss Whedon