Joss Whedon Quotes - Page 4

People only respond to fear.

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.

I’m assuming you’re as mystified by this as the rest of us, Rasputin. No. I’m not. I have been planning to destroy the Breakworld since I was a child. [silence] This is why I don’t make so many jokes. I never know when is good.

I'm working on 'Buffy: Deep Space Nine'. It will be dark and badly received.

The thing about changing the world... Once you do it, the world's all different.

The networks have a particular agenda, a particular model and structure. It doesn't have anything to do with content. This is not a dis on them - they are a business model, run by business people.

If I wrote what I really think, I would be so sad all the time. We create to fill a gap - not just to avoid the idea of dying, it's to fill some particular gap in ourselves.

Writing is the greatest thing that can happen to a human being. It's the best.

Because to me, there is no logic of any kind behind misogyny. Therefore, it’s funny, because it’s so completely random to me. It’s senseless.

If you're someone who geniunally believes that women don't deserve or aren't as much as men, you're like the plague. On the big history chart, you're the plague....It's just pointless and deadly.

Lockheed! You found me! You are the best X-Dragon ever.

I leave the world in terrible turmoil. I come back, same turmoil. Nothing at all different. Well, outfits are a little different.

I've got a theory, it could be bunnies... I've got a theor- Bunnies aren't just cute like everybody supposes They've got them hoppy legs and twitchy little noses. And what's with all the carrots-? What do they need such good eyesight for anyway? Bunnies, bunnies it must be bunnies! ...or maybe midgets.

Cordelia: I personally don't think it's possible to come up with a crazier plan. Oz: We attack the Mayor with hummus. Cordelia: I stand corrected. Oz: Just keeping things in perspective.

I respect the rules of TV, the rules of keeping things commercial and interesting and pop-y and fun.

Forgiveness is like a great act of compassion. That it was done not because someone deserved it, but because they needed it.

Shiny, let's be bad guys!

I am not made of steel. Rage. I...am made... of RAGE!!!!

How do you know your Colossus is the genuine article in the first place? I read his mind. I matched his DNA. I smelled him. I also did that.

If you can't run, you crawl. If you can't crawl-- you find someone to carry you.

You can't take the sky from me.

As we all know, blinking lights means science.

You give my regards to St. Peter, or whoever has his job, but in Hell.

The news isn't there to tell you what happened. It's there to tell you what it wants you to hear or what it thinks you want to hear.

Two things that matter to me. Emotional resonance and rocket launchers.