110+ Joss Whedon Quotes On God, Justice And Snyder Cut

Joss Whedon is an American screenwriter, director, producer, comic book writer, and composer. He is best known for creating the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Firefly. He also wrote and directed the Marvel Cinematic Universe films The Avengers and Avengers: Age of Ultron. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Joss Whedon on love, god, justice.

Top 10 Joss Whedon Quotes

1. Stay crunchy, even in milk.
2. 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.
3. The hardest thing in this world, is to live in it.
4. Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.
5. I am a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar!
6. In every generation there is a chosen one. She alone will stand against the vampires the demons and the forces of darkness. She is the slayer.
7. If I kill you, you'll be awake, you'll be facing me, and you'll be armed.
8. Half of writing history is hiding the truth
9. Angelus: Now that's everything, huh? No weapons... No friends...No hope. Take all that away... and what's left? Buffy: Me.
10. Very occasionally, if you pay really close attention, life doesn't suck.

Joss Whedon Short Quotes

• There’s a fine line between support and stalking and let’s all stay on the right side of that.
• I'm a very hard-line, angry atheist. Yet I am fascinated by the concept of devotion.
• "Angel, when I look into the future, all I see is you! All I want is you." "I know the feeling."
• Every vampire fiction reinvents vampires to its own needs. You take what you want.
• We have done the impossible. And that makes us mighty.
• To accept duality is to earn identity.
• I am a great believer in found families and I'm not a great believer in blood.
• I write to be the characters that I am not.
• It's not enough to bash in heads. You've got to bash in minds.
• Absolutely eat dessert first. The thing that you want to do the most, do that.

Joss Whedon Quotes About Love

Passion... it lies in all of us. Sleeping, waiting, and though unwanted, unbidden, it will stir, open its jaws, and howl. It speaks to us, guides us... passion rules us all. And we obey. What other choice do we have? — Joss Whedon

I really love `Serenity.' I'm really proud of it and excited to see it my guys on the big screen, bringing something new to it. But `Firefly' was a different animal, something I will regret losing until the day they put me in a box, because I did have a lot of good stories I wanted to tell. — Joss Whedon

I loved the idea of a girl going into a dark alley, and a monster comes, and then she just aces him. It’s like, you want to see the tiny person suddenly take control. God, my whole career is basically about that! — Joss Whedon

Love is for children. I owe him a debt. — Joss Whedon

I love a straightforward character. I am the guy who loves Cyclops on the 'X-Men', because he is square. — Joss Whedon

I eat 'The Walking Dead' like its made of brains. Can't even watch the show, I love the book so much. — Joss Whedon

I do listen to music. Movie scores, exclusively, because it's all about mood and nonspecificity. I love the way modern movie scoring is all about nonspecificity. You know, if I shuffled the tracks from 'Inception,' I challenge you to tell me which is which. — Joss Whedon

I tried to write a TV series, and then I discovered first of all that I love writing more than anything on this earth, and that you could write exactly as well as you want to. — Joss Whedon

There's a lot of anger in the Twitter-verse, as I've discovered. But there's a lot of love. — Joss Whedon

The problem is I want to do everything. I really love all of it, and I love every aspect of movie-making and storytelling, and I love television, I love the Internet. I wish I had time to do absolutely everything. — Joss Whedon

Joss Whedon Quotes About God

Faith in God means believing absolutely in something with no proof whatsoever. Faith in humanity means believing absolutely in something with a huge amount of proof to the contrary. We are the true believers. — Joss Whedon

I'm Joan of Arc. I figured we had a lot in common, seeing as how I was almost burned at the stake. And plus she had that close relationship with God. — Joss Whedon

If nothing we do matters... , then all that matters is what we do — Joss Whedon

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

Are you all right?" "Oh my god! I phased!" "Are you all right?" "Are you?" "It was strange." "I can't believe I phased just then! That's never...it was totally your fault." "I like to think so, yes." "Tee hee. — Joss Whedon

In the time of gods and monsters, what is the worth of a man? — Joss Whedon

I'm very much of the "make it dark, make it grim, make it tough", but then, for the love of God, tell a joke. — Joss Whedon

Every subsection of liberalism is always busy attacking another subsection of liberalism, because god forbid they should all band together and actually fight for the cause. — Joss Whedon

This landing is gonna get pretty interesting. Define "interesting". "Oh God, oh God, we're all going to die"? [on speakerphone]: This is the captain: we have a little problem with our entry sequence so we may experience some slight turbulence, then explode. — Joss Whedon

Joss Whedon Quotes About Life

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. — Joss Whedon

If the apocalypse comes...beep me! — Joss Whedon

Live all of your life. Understand it, see it, appreciate it. And have fun. — Joss Whedon

You know what? I was wrong. You are an idiot. My life happens to, on occasion, suck beyond the telling of it. Sometimes more than I can handle. — Joss Whedon

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

I mean, I knew I wasn't a nice person, but what did I do in my past life to deserve this? I must have hit a bus full of nuns while driving a stolen car on my way to selling drugs to schoolchildren! — Joss Whedon

Life's a show and we all play a part And when the music starts We open up our hearts — 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 see a movie about a guy who already knows he has a wonderful life. — Joss Whedon

My life has included a study of Shakespeare and to me it's very natural, but I know that it's not always accessible to other people. — Joss Whedon

I did my English A level in England, and we studied Shakespeare. I had great, great high school teachers, and we parsed the text within an inch of its life. — Joss Whedon

Joss Whedon Quotes About Buffy

If every vampire who said he was at the crucifixion was actually there, it would've been like Woodstock. — Joss Whedon

Cordelia: I personally don't think it's possible to come up with a crazier plan. Oz: We attack the Mayor with hummus. Cordelia: I stand corrected. Oz: Just keeping things in perspective. — Joss Whedon

I hate it when people talk about Buffy as being campy... I hate camp, I don't enjoy dumb TV. I believe Aaron Spelling has single-handedly lowered SAT scores. — Joss Whedon

There are some things I can just smell. It's like a sixth sense." "Well, actually, that would be one of the five. — Joss Whedon

When I created Buffy, I wanted to create a female icon, but I also wanted to be very careful to surround her with men that not only have no problem with the idea of a female leader, but were in fact engaged and even attracted to the idea. — Joss Whedon

He's like Super Librarian, y'know? Everyone forgets, Willow, that knowledge is the ultimate weapon. — Joss Whedon

Buffy Anne Summers 1981-2001 Beloved sister devoted friend she saved the world a lot. — Joss Whedon

In other news, it's been far too long since I gloated massively about the fact that I know what's going to happen on Buffy and you all don't. — Joss Whedon

I designed 'Buffy' to be an icon, to be an emotional experience, to be loved in a way that other shows can't be loved. Because it's about adolescence, which is the most important thing people go through in their development, becoming an adult. — Joss Whedon

As far as I am concerned, the first episode of Buffy was the beginning of my career. It was the first time I told a story from start to finish the way I wanted. — Joss Whedon

Joss Whedon Quotes About People

People feel removed from sexism. 'I'm not a sexist, but I'm not a feminist.' They think there's this fuzzy middle ground. There's no fuzzy middle ground. You either believe that women are people or you don't. It's that simple. — Joss Whedon

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FRIKKIN' SHOW. I totally shoulda took the road that had all those people on it. Damn. — Joss Whedon

People with real power never fear of losing it. People with control think of little else. — Joss Whedon

Writers are completely out of touch with reality. Writers are crazy [people]. 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. — Joss Whedon

My people - before I was changed - they exchanged this as a sign of devotion. It's a Claddagh ring. The hands represent friendship; the crown represents loyalty... and the heart... Well, you know... Wear it with the heart pointing towards you. It means you belong to somebody. Like this. — Joss Whedon

If I find out I have to write today and nothing else, that’s a perfect day. I know a lot of people who are great at it and make it look easy who are tortured and miserable people. Writing for me is perfect peace. — Joss Whedon

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

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

"'Come on, guys, I'm the leader of a whole movie...!' I tell when I want people to fear and respect me. Not wildly effective." — Joss Whedon

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

Joss Whedon Quotes About Television

I describe television as feminine and movies as masculine, in the sense that television wants to examine a problem from all sides and talk about it for a long time, and movies just want to hit the climax and then maybe have a smoke. — Joss Whedon

I set out in television with one simple goal: to purchase a Russian bride. Didn't work out. Immigration stuff - it's complicated. — Joss Whedon

If I had created reality television I would have had a much greater influence, but then I would have had to KILL MYSELF. — Joss Whedon

Joss Whedon Quotes About Story

The goal is always about the next story. It's always about the thing I haven't done before. It's about learning, or it's about becoming better, and it's about whatever story grabs hold of me. — Joss Whedon

I tend to tell stories that have a lot of momentum; it's not like 'and then months later...' I like things where the momentum of one action rolls into the next one so everything is the sum of that. — Joss Whedon

There's a reason Tony Stark makes fun of 'Thor,' and mentions 'Shakespeare' in the park in 'The Avengers.' It's great to play high drama and comedy alongside a modern story. — Joss Whedon

I think Spider-Man [film], the first one particularly, really figured out the formula of, "Oh, tell the story that they told in the comic. It was compelling. That's why it's iconic." — Joss Whedon

The fact that a TV star can become president should be old news since [Ronald] Reagan, and old news since the Nixon-Kennedy debates - which the famous story, whether or not you agree, is that if you listened on the radio, Nixon won; if you listened on TV, Kennedy won. — Joss Whedon

If something isn't working, if you have a story that you've built and it's blocked and you can't figure it out, take your favorite scene, or your very best idea or set-piece, and cut it. It's brutal, but sometimes inevitable. — Joss Whedon

This is a sad, sad reflection on our times, when people must feed off the carcasses of beloved stories from their youths – just because they can't think of an original idea of their own, like I did with my Avengers idea that I made up myself. — Joss Whedon

The fact of the matter is fame predates even the age of cinema. There's always been fame, there's always been the caveman who's prettier or killed a bigger lion, or somebody started a story about a guy. — Joss Whedon

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. — Joss Whedon

I don't have a particular ambition in any medium. I just want to keep telling stories. If somebody pays me, also good. — Joss Whedon

Joss Whedon Famous Quotes And Sayings

You know, I always was an early morning or late night writer. Early morning was my favorite; late night was because you had a deadline. And at four in the morning you make up some of your most absurd jokes. — Joss Whedon

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. — Joss Whedon

That girl will rain destruction down on you and your ship. She is an albatross, Captain. Way I remember it, albatross was a ship's good luck, 'til some idiot killed it. [to Inara] Yes, I've read a poem. Try not to faint. — 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 do with me. I love what you are, what you do, how you try. I've seen your kindness and your strength. I've seen the best and the worst of you. And I understand with perfect clarity exactly what you are. You're a hell of a woman. — 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

I was not popular in school, and I was definitely not a ladies' man. And I had a very painful adolescence, because it was all very strange to me. It wasn't like I got beat up, but the humiliation and isolation, and the existential 'God, I exist, and nobody cares' of being a teenager were extremely pronounced for me. — Joss Whedon

Because it’s no longer enough to be a decent person. It’s no longer enough to shake our heads and make concerned grimaces at the news. True enlightened activism is the only thing that can save humanity from itself. — Joss Whedon

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

Equality is not a concept. It's not something we should be striving for. It's a necessity. Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women. — Joss Whedon

Because to me, there is no logic of any kind behind misogyny. Therefore, it’s funny, because it’s so completely random to me. It’s senseless. — Joss Whedon

I think everyone who makes movies should be forced to do television. Because you have to finish. You have to get it done, and there are a lot of decisions made just for the sake of making decisions. You do something because it's efficient and because it gets the story told and it connects to the audience. — Joss Whedon

Scramblers deactivated, then? Well here's some good news. You feel no pain. You will go straight to a hospital. Remember nothing of this place. And every time you hear the words "parsley", "intractable" or "longitude", you will vomit uncontrollably for forty-eight hours. — 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, he's going to keep digging, he's going to keep trying to do right and make up for what's gone before, just because that's who he is. — Joss Whedon

Everything is a drug. Family, art, causes, new shoes… We’re all just tweaking our chem to avoid the void. — Joss Whedon

When I read [the script] and saw that it was my fanboy wet dream of an Avengers script and that [Agent] Coulson was a big part of it, that was the great day for me. I just drove around the streets with the script in the other seat, giggling. — Joss Whedon

You do not want a war. You have known violence, you have suffered loss, but you have seen nothing of war. War is not just the business of death; it is the anti-thesis of life. Hope, tortured and flayed, reason, dismembered, grinning at its limbs in its lap. Decency, raped to death... You will be a murderer and more. — 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

Inevitably it's going to cause some terrible misogynist backlash, and I assume we'll look forward to eight years of jaw-droppingly sexist statements - the way we listened to eight years of racism around the presidency. It will be an argument before it's a conversation. But at least it's being had. — Joss Whedon

Doctor, I'm taking your sister under my protection. If any thing happens to her, anything at all, I swear to you I will get very choked up. Honestly, there could be tears. — 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

Sarah Michelle Gellar's made some really good choices. She's had some bad breaks. She goes with the independent, interesting young filmmakers and then they get slammed, like 'Southland Tales.' I'm proud of what she's trying to do. It's hard. — Joss Whedon

It's a fun thing to do, to put yourself in the service of something if you think you can add an interpretation. It's no different than any other storytelling. — Joss Whedon

Everything I do is going to contain the message that men who are going to be comfortable with powerful women are going to be more powerful men — Joss Whedon

Science fiction is like a blender - you can put in any historical experience and take influences from everything you see, read or experience. — 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

The two things that matter the most to me: emotional resonance and rocket launchers. Party of Five, a brilliant show, and often made me cry uncontrollably, suffered ultimately from a lack of rocket launchers. — Joss Whedon

I've seen plenty of films where the projector broke. The problems that we have in the digital age are exactly the same as we had. Instead of, 'There's a hair in the gate,' it's, 'The computer ate the footage.' There will always be things like that going on. Nothing is perfect. — Joss Whedon

My soul is wrapped in harsh repose, Midnight descends in raven-colored clothes, But soft... behold! A sunlight beam Butting a swath of glimmering gleam. My heart expands, 'tis grown a bulge in it, Inspired by your beauty... Effulgent. — Joss Whedon

The stupidest person in the room might have the best idea. — Joss Whedon

I still believe that even though 'The Empire Strikes Back' is better in innumerable ways than 'Star Wars,' 'Star Wars' wins. — Joss Whedon

The one thing a creator can bring to the table when everybody else has all the money and power is centeredness and the ability to walk away. Never sit at a table you can't walk away from. — Joss Whedon

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

I could not conceive that [fans] actually wanted me to sign something. It took a long time for me to figure out (a) just say 'Thank you' and sign the thing, and (b) smile in the picture, because if you try to just half-smile you're going to look constipated. — Joss Whedon

It's good to meet you, Dr. Banner. Your work on anti-electron collisions is unparalleled. And I'm a huge fan of the way you lose control and turn into an enormous green rage monster. — Joss Whedon

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. — Joss Whedon

The networks have a particular agenda, a particular model and structure. It doesn't have anything to do with content. This is not a dis on them - they are a business model, run by business people. — Joss Whedon

I loved teaching and I did a lot of work as a teacher's assistant in college, and my favorite experience was basically getting a laugh from a bunch of people because they had just understood something. Because I had shown them something they hadn't seen before, and it amused them. That's the combo platter. That's a perfect moment. — Joss Whedon

This is something that I do consider to be good advice: I took my first paycheck and I put it in the goddamn bank. Then I took my second paycheck and put it in the goddamn bank. I had seen the roller coaster of my father's career - top of the world, then unemployed - and I never wanted to take a job because I needed money. — Joss Whedon

In TV, there's so much compromise, it does start to grate a bit. But if you're a writer or an actor, it really is the place to be. — Joss Whedon

I am a fan of sequels even though they are inevitably awful. — Joss Whedon

Sadly, I hate foreigners. And Americans. And animals. And flora, and some fauna. Also the magma that is the very core of this our mother earth. I'm full o' hate! — Joss Whedon

There is nothing more painful in the world than Aly when she makes her big eyes. She makes her big hurt eyes, there's nothing you can do. She just kills you. — Joss Whedon

That wouldn't be a first, now would it?" "Jean." "Jean Grey is dead, Agent." "Yeah, that'll last. — Joss Whedon

The first lesson a watcher learns is to separate truth from illusion. Because in the world of magics, it's the hardest thing to do. — Joss Whedon

I don't write just to be clever. But sometimes I do. And if you don't have an understanding of the language, then the way in which it's bent doesn't actually register. It's the old you-gotta-paint-like-them-before-you-can-paint-like-you thing. — Joss Whedon

Life Lessons by Joss Whedon

1. Joss Whedon's work emphasizes the importance of strong female characters and conveys the power of storytelling to bring people together.
2. His stories often explore themes of morality, justice, and redemption, emphasizing the importance of making difficult decisions and taking responsibility for one's actions.
3. Whedon's work also highlights the power of collaboration and the value of friendship, demonstrating the importance of working together to achieve a greater good.