Feel Quotes

I love a good romantic comedy.

Joss Whedon

Tags: Good Romantic Love

I'm a very gentle man, not unlike Gandhi.

Joss Whedon

Tags: Very Man Unlike

I've been doing Shakespeare readings with my friends for years.

Joss Whedon

Tags: Been Years Doing

I always watch what I say. I am what I say.

Joss Whedon

Tags: Always Am Say

When you're making a film, you have an obligation to fill the frame with life.

Joss Whedon

Tags: You Life Making

For me, the act of telling the story and showing it to somebody is almost gravy.

Joss Whedon

Tags: Me Story Almost

I'm a very hard-line, angry atheist. Yet I am fascinated by the concept of devotion.

Joss Whedon

Tags: Very Am I Am

Shakespeare's language does not require a British accent. It requires a facility with language, and that's all.

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Horror movies don't exist unless you go and see them, and people always will.

Joss Whedon

Tags: Movies You People

The only way to real mature love is to get past the tropes of what we consider 'romance.'

Joss Whedon

Tags: Get Love Way

I don't want the giant ego. I don't want to become Kevin Costner, singing on the soundtrack to The Postman.

Joss Whedon

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'The Sixth Sense' is fine the second time around, but honestly, the first time around, it's dazzling.

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Tags: Time First Around

I don't have a ton of enemies. I get along with people pretty well when I'm not annoying them to death.

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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.

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Tags: Time You Think

We need narrative; it feeds us in a particular way, and deconstructing it completely before you've actually experienced it, I think it leaves us unfed.

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Tags: You Think I Think

All of the most important lessons about writing I learned from my father. He never set out to teach me anything, it would just be something he said casually in conversation.

Joss Whedon

Tags: Me About Just

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

Tags: You Just Always

On one level, I must never lose touch with my audience. But I must, at some point, stop trying to get everybody to like me, and be true to the thing I think I need to say.

Joss Whedon

Tags: Me Like Think

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.

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Tags: Out Life Something

People always say I write a lot of pop culture references. Can somebody please count the pop culture references in 'Firefly?' Because I don't know how to put this to you, but there was one. I referenced The Beatles in the pilot.

Joss Whedon

Tags: You People Because

I spent a ton of time alone. I was raised by a feminist; I had a terrifying father and oppressively scary and mean brothers. We had a farm. The rule was between breakfast and lunch you weren't allowed to make a sound.

Joss Whedon

Tags: Time Alone You

Writers are completely out of touch with reality. Writers are a crazy person. We create conflict - for a living. We do this all the time, sometimes on a weekly basis; we create horrible, incredible circumstances and then figure a way out of them. That's what we do.

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Tags: Time Out Them

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.'

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Tags: Funny Me About

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.

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Tags: Business You Like

I always tend to think just left of center, to remove myself from the world by one step. It is very freeing, and it's a particular way of coming at stories and looking at them that I find the most beautiful stuff that I know comes from, ultimately.

Joss Whedon

Tags: Think Just Always

That title, is one of the things I fought for. A lot of people said 'But it's stupid, and it's the title of a comedy movie, and people won't take it seriously,' and I'm sure there are some people who still don't. But for the most part, people do see that we really have a quality show.

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Tags: People Who Really

'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

Tags: Best Me About

I think to an extent every human being needs to be redeemed somewhat or at least needs to look at themselves and say, 'I've made mistakes, I'm off course, I need to change.' Which is probably the hardest thing for a human being to do, and maybe that's why it interests me so.

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Tags: Change Me Think