Joss Whedon Quotes

Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE.

I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of.

Humor keeps us alive. Humor and food. Don't forget food. You can go a week without laughing.

You're going to burn in a very special level of hell. A level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater.

People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy.

Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.

Don’t give people what they want, give them what they need.

You either have to write or you shouldn't be writing. That's all.

There’s a fine line between support and stalking and let’s all stay on the right side of that.

If you're going to make a science fiction movie, then have a hover craft chase, for God's sake.

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

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...

Bottom line is, even if you see 'em coming, you're not ready for the big moments. No one asks for their life to change, not really. But it does. So what are we, helpless? Puppets? No. The big moments are gonna come. You can't help that. It's what you do afterwards that counts. That's when you find out who you are.

Very occasionally, if you pay really close attention, life doesn't suck.

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

You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are.

Recognizing power in another does not diminish your own.

War is not just the business of death, it is the antitheses of life.

Everything we do really is just a little marker on the long road to death. And sometimes that’s overwhelmingly depressing to me, and sometimes it makes me feel kinship and forgiveness. We’ve all got the same ending to the story. The way we make that story more elaborate, I got to respect.

I also don't trust Caribou anymore. They're out there, on the tundra, waiting... Something's going down. I'm right about this.