Joss Whedon/Quotes

"Some people have a gift of reaching right into your soul

And finding the hole

And making it bigger."

- Reel Big Fish Drunk Again

"People are always surprised when Joss kills characters. Come on man, look at the history; that guy loves to kill people! He loves to get you invested, he loves to get you all worked up, and rootin' for people, and then bam."

- Nathan Fillion in the bonus features for Dr. Horribles Sing Along Blog

"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."

- Joss Whedon, Whedonesque

"Neil Patrick Harris: You do kill a lot of chicks.

Joss Whedon: My personal life is not the point here!"

- At the Comicon panel for Dr. Horribles Sing Along Blog

"Q: So, why do you write these strong female characters?

A: Because you're still asking me that question."

- "American Rhetoric: Joss Whedon - Equality Now Address". (May 15, 2006)

"Q: So Joss, why do you write these strong female characters?

A: To get laid."

- Joss answering a fan at a comic convention.

""Let's not talk to Joss. He's sad and confusing.""

- Commentary the Musical

"About killing off "I wanted to make all this matter and have something that would send emotional ripples through all the characters. Also, I’m a prick.""

- Joss Whedon, in an Entertainment Weekly article. (Jan 19, 2011)

""I have had a dream my whole life... and it was not this good.""

- On writing and directing The Avengers movie.

""Presumably Claudio is impaled on something sharp in the final act.""

- Mightygodking on Joss Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing

""I'm, no offense, very tired of being labelled as 'the guy who kills people.' Shakespeare (he's this hot new writer) does it way more than me, and everyone's all excited about how he, as it were, holds a mirror up to nature, while I'm like the Jason Voorhees of the writing community. Unfair.""

- In his Reddit AMA session

""In my world, heroes bugger each other senseless. Not all of them, but more than you'd think, and probably not who you're thinking.""

- Just see here

""I have one particular theme ... and that’s helplessness. The empowerment of someone who’s helpless. And that has everything to do with how I feel about myself. Buffy was a pretty blond girl of whom nothing was expected, who didn’t try very hard at anything, and then suddenly became the most powerful person around — that theme, whether it’s empowerment or the discovery that one is powerless, that drives everything I do.""

- Forbes: 'Avengers' Director Joss Whedon on Trying to Be More Like Buffy