I think it’s always important for academics to study popular culture, even if the thing they are studying is idiotic. If it’s successful or made a dent in culture, then it is worthy of study to find out why. – Joss Whedon
An audience who watches my shows knows who I am, knows that right when they think I’m going to make a joke, I’m going to blow something up, or during the worst peril, I’m going to have someone give someone a kiss – it’s just going to happen. – Joss Whedon
Limitations are something that I latch onto – like working in genre, or if you’re writing TV, there are act breaks, there’s a length of time it’s supposed to be. The restrictions of budget and sets can be really useful. When you can have everything, it’s very hard to make things feel real and lived in. – Joss Whedon
You know, the thing that I do to waste time is think of things I want to make. That’s how my mind is employed. – Joss Whedon
I have an obligation to do press, but I don’t have an obligation to stay out dancing until 3 A.M. – Joss Whedon
I like to think that I’m a populist entertainer, but I’m a little bit idiosyncratic, and sometimes the networks wouldn’t really roll with that. – Joss Whedon
I usually write things in my head before I ever write them down. When I write it out, usually I’ve already figured out what it is I’m trying to do. – Joss Whedon
Kristen Stewart is kind of captivating; she can just stare at stuff and it works because I still want to watch it. – Joss Whedon
I’ve had so much success. I had something to say, I got to say it, people heard it, and they agreed. That’s every artist’s dream. That’s the brass ring. – Joss Whedon
Everything I write tends to turn into a superhero team, even if I didn’t mean for it to. I always start off wanting to be solitary, because a) it’s simpler, and b) that isolation is something that I relate to as a storyteller. And then no matter what, I always end up with a team. – Joss Whedon
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. – Joss Whedon
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. – Joss Whedon
A lot of people who saw ‘The Avengers’ didn’t read comic books, don’t like comic book movies, and enjoyed it. That was huge for me. – Joss Whedon
There was a time before I felt I was a real writer, when I was a yarn spinner and I just wanted to tell story until it was over. But then there came a time where I was like, ‘No, I want to understand something through writing this that I might have not understood before. I want people to come away with something to think about.’ – Joss Whedon
‘The Dark Knight,’ for me, has the same problem that every other ‘Batman’ movie has. It’s not about Batman. I think Heath Ledger is just phenomenal and the character of the Joker is beautifully written. He has a particular philosophy that he carries throughout the movie. He has one of the best bad guy schemes. – Joss Whedon
TV does a thing that film can never do. It takes you to a place that no novel written after the late 19th century can. You can just go through people’s lives; it’s like a marriage. – Joss Whedon
I always believe in just have as much fun as you can so that when you’re in the part that you hate, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel, that you’re close to finished. – Joss Whedon
Shakespeare’s language does not require a British accent. It requires a facility with language, and that’s all. – Joss Whedon
