The British press has been unfair to me and the public has followed.
JOSS STONE I'm supposed to be taking time off. But I'm still writing and I have this Gap advert lined u...
JOSS STONE People say I'm the white Aretha Franklin. I wish I was her.
JOSS STONE For me, personally, Mind, Body and Soul is my real debut.
JOSS STONE I'm 19, I'm a girl, I'm very young, I like all sorts of different things, I like all sor...
JOSS STONE Well, I don't really understand how you can do that. Why not have a Chihuahua and a ferret? The more...
JOSS STONE Someone needs to tell me where the money is, because I cannot find the shit.
JOSS STONE I think winning three is a huge achievement. I think winning eight is a ridiculous thing. I can't im...
JOSS STONE People forget what it was like to be young, the stuff I'm expressing now is for the first time.
JOSS STONE I've got a checklist of things I want - including a Brit, a Grammy, an Oscar and a white poodle. Som...
JOSS STONE It's ok to be sassy, but I'll never be trashy, it's ok to be nasty, but you got to keep it classy no...
JOSS STONE I didn't write those songs, but I can relate to every one of them... I have.
JOSS STONE Well, I don't really understand how you can do that.
JOSS STONE The tide is turning against cheap flights and airport expansions. Residents and Earth First! direct ...
JOSS STONE I think winning three is a huge achievement. I think winning eight is a ridiculous thing. I can't im...
JOSS STONE An audience who watches my shows knows who I am, knows that right when they think I'm going to m...
JOSS WHEDON Buffy loves Angel. He loves her. And I love Ho Hos.
JOSS WHEDON 'Buffy' is about growing up. 'Angel' is really about already having grown up, dealin...
JOSS WHEDON When I created Buffy, I wanted to create a female icon, but I also wanted to be very careful to surr...
JOSS WHEDON I designed 'Buffy' to be an icon, to be an emotional experience, to be loved in a way that o...
JOSS WHEDON I hate it when people talk about Buffy as being campy... I hate camp, I don't enjoy dumb TV. I b...
JOSS WHEDON Passion. It lies in all of us. Sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted, unbidden, it will stir......
JOSS WHEDON I've had so much success. I had something to say, I got to say it, people heard it, and they agr...
JOSS WHEDON Yeah, well, not many boys take their girls out on a duck shoot with them as target for a first date....
JOSS STIRLING I'm crazy, Zed.' There, I'd admitted it.
'Uh-huh. And I'm crazy too -about you.
JOSS STIRLING Victor patted my hand. 'I like you, Sky. You're a fighter.'
'I am, aren't I? Hear that, Zed? No...
JOSS STIRLING Science fiction is like a blender - you can put in any historical experience and take influences fro...
JOSS WHEDON Albert Einstein once said that ‘insanity’ was ‘Doing the same thing over and over again, expec...
JOSS SHELDON Very occasionally, if you pay really close attention, life doesn't suck.
JOSS WHEDON I'll take crazy over stupid any day.
JOSS WHEDON Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE.
JOSS WHEDON Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.
JOSS WHEDON You can't take the sky from me.
JOSS WHEDON Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.
JOSS WHEDON The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn't look like there's a light at the end of the tunnel, ...
JOSS WHEDON I'm not a leader now. I'm a whole damn army.
JOSS WHEDON Passion, it lies in all of us, sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted... unbidden... it will sti...
JOSS WHEDON When I say, "I love you," it's not because I want you or because I can't have you. It has nothing to...
JOSS WHEDON I also felt that Ron and Hermione would have gotten divorced. I'm sorry, I just do. The end of Harry...
JOSS WHEDON I could not conceive that [fans] actually wanted me to sign something. It took a long time for me to...
JOSS WHEDON Everything is a drug. Family, art, causes, new shoes... We're all just tweaking our chem to avoid th...
JOSS WHEDON I'd rather make a show 100 people need to see, than a show that 1000 people want to see.
JOSS WHEDON Don’t give people what they want, give them what they need.
JOSS WHEDON Somebody once asked me if I have anything like faith, and I said I have faith in the narrative. I ha...
JOSS WHEDON Equality is not a concept. It's not something we should be striving for. It's a necessity. Equality ...
JOSS WHEDON Ain't all buttons and charts, little albatross. Know what the first rule of flying is? Well I s'pose...
JOSS WHEDON The one thing a creator can bring to the table when everybody else has all the money and power is ce...
JOSS WHEDON The thing with the comics is that you have license to go down every alley your brain can think of.
JOSS WHEDON The Internet community started forming right when 'Buffy' started airing, and the notion of ...
JOSS WHEDON The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn't look like there's a light at the end of the ...
JOSS WHEDON Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women.
JOSS WHEDON I have patches of insomnia, and I'm fascinated by the otherness of the world at night. The still...
MORAG JOSS The thing about changing the world... Once you do it, the world's all different.
JOSS WHEDON Kristen Stewart is kind of captivating; she can just stare at stuff and it works because I still wan...
JOSS WHEDON There’s a fine line between support and stalking and let’s all stay on the right side of that.
JOSS WHEDON Writers are completely out of touch with reality. Writers are a crazy person. We create conflict - f...
JOSS WHEDON I was not popular in school, and I was definitely not a ladies' man. And I had a very painful ad...
JOSS WHEDON My first gig ever was writing looplines for a movie that had already been made. You know, writing li...
JOSS WHEDON A lot of people who saw 'The Avengers' didn't read comic books, don't like comic boo...
JOSS WHEDON There's a reason Tony Stark makes fun of 'Thor,' and mentions 'Shakespeare' in t...
JOSS WHEDON Something like 'Much Ado' happens, and even 'Avengers' happens because of the years ...
JOSS WHEDON I loved working with 'The Avengers' cast and we had a great time, but it was a job, and they...
JOSS WHEDON 'The Dark Knight,' for me, has the same problem that every other 'Batman' movie has....
JOSS WHEDON Wonder Woman isn't Spider-man or Batman. She doesn't have a town, she has a world. That was ...
JOSS WHEDON Faith in God means believing absolutely in something with no proof whatsoever. Faith in humanity mea...
JOSS WHEDON The times are chaotic. For me, I would hope that people look at [Angel] and gain strength by it. Wit...
JOSS WHEDON Bottom line is, even if you see 'em coming, you're not ready for the big moments. No one asks for th...
JOSS WHEDON My mom and dad were divorced, and although they got along very well, my mom thought American televis...
JOSS WHEDON I didn't watch a lot of American television growing up. I just liked to read a lot and watch mov...
JOSS WHEDON I always was an early-morning or late-night writer. Early morning was my favorite; late night was be...
JOSS WHEDON 'The Sixth Sense' is fine the second time around, but honestly, the first time around, it...
JOSS WHEDON Humor keeps us alive. Humor and food. Don't forget food. You can go a week without laughing.
JOSS WHEDON Because it’s no longer enough to be a decent person. It’s no longer enough to shake our heads an...
JOSS WHEDON So, why do you write these strong female characters?

Because you’re still asking me tha...
JOSS WHEDON I think it's always important for academics to study popular culture, even if the thing they are...
JOSS WHEDON I don't tend to write straight dramas where real life just impinges. But because I don't, wh...
JOSS WHEDON Recognizing power in another does not diminish your own.
JOSS WHEDON Who is to say who is the villain and who is the hero? Probably the dictionary.
JOSS WHEDON Everybody who labels themselves a 'nerd' isn't some giant person locked in a cubbyhole w...
JOSS WHEDON Absolutely eat dessert first. The thing that you want to do the most, do that.
JOSS WHEDON You know, I always was an early morning or late night writer. Early morning was my favorite; late ni...
JOSS WHEDON Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there.
JOSS WHEDON You go to movies to see people you love suffer - that's why you go to the movies. You don't go to se...
JOSS WHEDON This is something that I do consider to be good advice: I took my first paycheck and I put it in the...
JOSS WHEDON It's very important that we start creating new content again. We can only build on nostalgia so much...
JOSS WHEDON If I wrote what I really think, I would be so sad all the time. We create to fill a gap - not just t...
JOSS WHEDON I'm well aware when they fired the starting gun I was halfway down the track, but I still ran as fas...
JOSS WHEDON I'm the least confident person in so many ways. But I believed that if somebody gave me the chance t...
JOSS WHEDON I go to movies expecting to have a whole experience. If I want a movie that doesn't end, I'll go to ...
JOSS WHEDON Everything we do really is just a little marker on the long road to death. And sometimes that's over...
JOSS WHEDON It's a question of opening it up, and it's a question of closing it down, ... You know, opening it u...
JOSS WHEDON Those of us who write spend our entire lives in an endless English class.
JOSS WHEDON It's only recently women got to be action heroes on TV. Progress is slow, and often non-existent...
JOSS WHEDON I took the overreaching arc I was headed toward in the TV show and made that the plot of the movie, ...
JOSS WHEDON For me, the act of telling the story and showing it to somebody is almost gravy.
JOSS WHEDON My dad would go to work every day and write in a room full of funny people. He enjoyed it. I know gr...
JOSS WHEDON I always believe in just have as much fun as you can so that when you're in the part that you ha...
JOSS WHEDON What I do like is hiking. And that's what filmmaking is. It's a hike. It's challenging a...
JOSS WHEDON I watched that episode a thousand times [Once more, with feeling]....because I'm an incredible narci...
JOSS WHEDON What I love most about icons is finding out what's behind them, exploring the price of their pow...
JOSS WHEDON The misogyny that is in every culture is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of b...
JOSS WHEDON I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all ...
JOSS WHEDON It may not feel too classy, begging just to eat
But you know who does that?
Lassie, and s...
JOSS WHEDON Shiny, let's be bad guys!
JOSS WHEDON If the apocalypse comes...beep me!
JOSS WHEDON That girl will rain destruction down on you and your ship. She is an albatross, Captain.

JOSS WHEDON Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FRIKKIN' SH...
JOSS WHEDON We are, all of us, incoherent text, and just knowing that - knowing that no matter how much you say,...
JOSS WHEDON What's exciting is, like, Batman Begins basically really did a wonderful job explaining exactly why ...
JOSS WHEDON It's the story of a young woman's journey that involves a great deal of horror and some heroics. It'...
JOSS WHEDON There are good crews in every country, ... But there are certain ways of working. We were able to co...
JOSS WHEDON Let's say it's a good jumping off point,
JOSS WHEDON I thought maybe another network or a miniseries,
JOSS WHEDON I thought 'this is too exciting to let go of.'
JOSS WHEDON As far as I am concerned, the first episode of Buffy was the beginning of my career. It was the firs...
JOSS WHEDON It's the story of a young woman's journey that involves a great deal of horror and some heroics,
JOSS WHEDON I think everyone who makes movies should be forced to do television. Because you have to finish. You...
JOSS WHEDON Now that that paradigm has worked, the market will be inundated, ... It's a revenue source companies...
JOSS WHEDON James suddenly seemed to have his guitar *all* the time and at the drop of a hat...or even with no h...
JOSS WHEDON Like Pain, fear can be controlled
JOSS WHEDON I wrote movies every week, that's what I did. It was about finding that moment that is so good, so r...
JOSS WHEDON It was really fun, ... Though I did discover that the Chinese language can say a lot with very few s...
JOSS WHEDON It's about how much freedom you can take away from somebody before they either fold or fight, ... It...
JOSS WHEDON Mal: [closing the doors] Good day!
JOSS WHEDON The master plan does not have a master plan. Television ultimately finds itself, and after it finds ...
JOSS WHEDON Xav!
Got you. Not letting you go.
I realised I wasn't alone in mental deep space; he had a...
JOSS STIRLING Hell-on-skis, can you hear me? This is flying cupcake.
JOSS STIRLING Wherever I was, I was happy. At peace. I knew that everyone I cared about was all right. I knew it. ...
JOSS WHEDON Two things that matter to me. Emotional resonance and rocket launchers.
JOSS WHEDON You either have to write or you shouldn't be writing. That's all.
JOSS WHEDON What were we talking before I was so rudely interrupted by a flying citrus ?
JOSS STIRLING Redemption is something you have to fight for in a very personal, down-dirty way. Some of our charac...
JOSS WHEDON All worthy work is open to interpretations the author did not intend. Art isn't your pet -- it's you...
JOSS WHEDON Seven years, Dawn. Working with the Slayer. Seeing my friends get more and more powerful... a witch....
JOSS WHEDON Ultimately what I end up writing about is helplessness and the flipside of that, empowerment.
JOSS WHEDON "Someone else's loss is my chocolatey goodness"
JOSS WHEDON I think it's not inaccurate to say that I had a perfectly happy childhood during which I was ver...
JOSS WHEDON Horror movies don't exist unless you go and see them, and people always will.
JOSS WHEDON I'm a very hard-line, angry atheist. Yet I am fascinated by the concept of devotion.
JOSS WHEDON I would love to give you a more in-depth coherent explanation of my view of the soul, and if I had o...
JOSS WHEDON Every kid who hated grownups becomes a grownup. Well, except the ones who died.
JOSS WHEDON Everything we do really is just a little marker on the long road to death. And sometimes that’s ov...
JOSS WHEDON My favorite part of Comic-Con? The groupies.
JOSS WHEDON I love to write. I love it. I mean there's nothin in the world I like better, and that includes sex,...
JOSS WHEDON We'll meet a Wonder Woman who is similar to the one from the original comics and from the TV series ...
JOSS WHEDON I don't want the giant ego. I don't want to become Kevin Costner, singing on the soundtrack to The P...
JOSS WHEDON as opposed to irate.
JOSS WHEDON We'll never make Firefly again, because that was a thing that existed and is now gone. And Serenity ...
JOSS WHEDON Firefly
JOSS WHEDON Always be yourself... unless you suck.
JOSS WHEDON The two things that matter the most to me: emotional resonance and rocket launchers. Party of Five, ...
JOSS WHEDON I was given license to purely make it my own and yet she is already an iconic Amazon princess,
JOSS WHEDON They're a lot more attractive than I am, actually, ... Which kind of disturbs and upsets me.
JOSS WHEDON I'm a believer in that, ... I am a great believer in found families and I'm not a great believer in ...
JOSS WHEDON The idea behind the show, ... was to take nine people and say, 'Nine people look out into the blackn...
JOSS WHEDON I had this extraordinary world I helped create, with this cast I felt were the most extraordinary pe...
JOSS WHEDON I'm a very hard-line, angry atheist. Yet I am fascinated by the concept of devotion.
JOSS WHEDON This was dangerous talk—in these enlightened times, a wise woman would never be too clever. The ac...
JOSS ALEXANDER I've been to two festivals in my life, and I've never been to Toronto. I haven't really ...
JOSS WHEDON Lockheed! You found me! You are the best X-Dragon ever.
JOSS WHEDON I leave the world in terrible turmoil. I come back, same turmoil. Nothing at all different. Well, ou...
JOSS WHEDON How do you know your Colossus is the genuine article in the first place?

I read his mind....
JOSS WHEDON I love fantasy. I love horror. I love musicals. Whatever doesn't really happen in life is what I...
JOSS WHEDON The creature who lives inside my brain suggested I do it,” I offered tentatively. “It was very c...
JOSS SHELDON You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are.
JOSS WHEDON I became a new person; sucked into the neutrality of the abyss, comforted by social norms, and set f...
JOSS SHELDON Come a day there won’t be room for naughty men like us to slip about at all. This job goes south, ...
JOSS WHEDON We can't just concentrate on one village.
JOSS WILSON If you can't run, you crawl. If you can't crawl-- you find someone to carry you.
JOSS WHEDON And finally, she saw him smile. It chased the shadows from his face and made him a boy again. It was...
JOSS ALEXANDER In the case of both Buffy and Firefly , it was almost a case of devising a language,
JOSS WHEDON Bottom line is, even if you see them coming, you're not ready for the big moments. No one asks for t...
JOSS WHEDON People would say, 'You're going to need this and that,' and I'd be like, 'Not so much.' If I only ne...
JOSS WHEDON Serenity.
JOSS WHEDON We'll meet a Wonder Woman who is similar to the one from the original comics and from the TV series ...
JOSS WHEDON In TV the attitude is: 'Tell me what we have and we'll build around that,' ... Feature filmmaking se...
JOSS WHEDON [What about remarks from the actor that he's getting too old to play an immortal vampire who never a...
JOSS WHEDON [After being asked what he thinks about people saying the 6th season of Buffy got a little too dark]...
JOSS WHEDON I like my chances. But it is absolutely still too amorphous for me to make any kind of announcement ...
JOSS WHEDON I think it's realistic,
JOSS WHEDON Well, he's buff, really buff; he's a very attractive man, how come that never came up?
JOSS WHEDON Our luck? You noticed anything in particular about our luck these past few days? Any kind of pattern...
JOSS WHEDON She doesn't really understand this world. She's very strong but she's also very naive. She's not qui...
JOSS WHEDON I felt this was a story that had not been told, ... I just needed somebody to believe as strongly as...
JOSS WHEDON My reasons were completely personal, ... My wife is an architect; I have two kids under 3. There may...
JOSS WHEDON Crazy crisp dialogue. Incredibly tight plotting. Big emotion.
JOSS WHEDON I also don't trust Caribou anymore. They're out there, on the tundra, waiting... Something's going d...
JOSS WHEDON For me [Buffy] was about your teenage years but it was again the whole experience, the same situatio...
JOSS WHEDON Originally, I was hesitant. But then it's also sort of why I became really interested, because she d...
JOSS WHEDON Someone else's loss is my chocolatey goodness
JOSS WHEDON Serenity
JOSS WHEDON Because you should always do something on a spaceship if you can…
JOSS WHEDON Everything's shiny, Cap'n. Not to fret.
JOSS WHEDON It is, in an unprecedented sense, your movie. So, it if sucks, it's your fault.
JOSS WHEDON It's very sweet to mention the word sequel, ... Obviously that's the way my brain works. It continue...
JOSS WHEDON Alfred is taken past this broom, and enters this room; which can only be described as 'piecemeal'. I...
JOSS SHELDON I am a leaf on the wind - watch how I soar
JOSS WHEDON Tonight sucks. And look at me. Look at - look at stupid Buffy. Too dumb for college, and-and-and fre...
JOSS WHEDON As we all know, blinking lights means science.
JOSS WHEDON People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. An...
JOSS WHEDON