Joss Whedon Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• 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.

  Joss Whedon

  Hipster, Writing, Character

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Joss Whedon

  Work, Writing, Bad Ass

  "Dollhouse’s Joss Whedon Answers Your Questions" by Rebecca Harper, blog.hulu.com. March 6, 2009.

• Half of writing history is hiding the truth.

  Joss Whedon

  Truth, Writing, Firefly

  "Serenity". www.imdb.com. 2005.

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

  Joss Whedon

  Writing, People, Giving

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 5, 2001.

• I write for fanboy moments. 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. I write to do all the things the viewers want too. So the intensity of the fan response is enormously gratifying. It means I hit a nerve.

  Joss Whedon

  Writing, Character, Mean

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Joss Whedon

  Writing

• 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

  Writing, Perfect Days, People

• It is the most fun I’m ever going to have. I love to write. I love it. I mean, there’s nothing in the world I like better, and that includes sex, probably because I’m so very bad at it. It’s the greatest peace when I’m in a scene, and it’s just me and the character, that’s it, that’s where I want to live my life.

  Joss Whedon

  Sex, Fun, Writing

• 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

  Writing, Epic, People

  "This explains Joss perfectly" by Joss Whedon, whedonesque.com. February 14, 2006.

• I write to be the characters that I am not.

  Joss Whedon

  Writing, Character, Inspiration To Write

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• If you have a good idea, get it out there. For every idea I’ve realized, I have ten I sat on for a decade till someone else did it first. Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE.

  Joss Whedon

  Writing, Ideas, Firsts

  "Dollhouse’s Joss Whedon Answers Your Questions" by Rebecca Harper, blog.hulu.com. March 6, 2009.

• 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

  Writing, Cutting, Ideas

• 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

  Writing, Firsts, Tvs

  IGN interview, www.ign.com. June 23, 2003.

• All I ask is this: Do something. Try something. Speaking out, showing up, writing a letter, a check, a strongly worded e-mail. Pick a cause – there are few unworthy ones. And nudge yourself past the brink of tacit support to action. Once a month, once a year, or just once...Even just learning enough about a subject so you can speak against an opponent eloquently makes you an unusual personage. Start with that. Any one of you would have cried out, would have intervened, had you been in that crowd in Bashiqa. Well thanks to digital technology, you’re all in it now.

  Joss Whedon

  Writing, Past, Technology

• When people say to me, 'Why are you so good at writing at women?' I say, 'Why isn't everybody?' Obviously there are differences between men and women - that's what makes it all fun. But we're all people. There's a lot of good writers who are very humanist, but still manage to kind of skip fifty-five per cent of the race. And I just don't get that. Not to be able to write an entire gender? To me, the question isn't how do you do it? It's how can you possibly avoid doing it?

  Joss Whedon

  Fun, Writing, Men

• 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

  Real, Writing, Thinking

• When Roseanne read the first script of mine that got into her hands without being edited by someone else she said, 'How can you write a middle-aged woman this well?' I said, 'If you met my mom you wouldn't ask'.

  Joss Whedon

  Mom, Writing, Hands

• At the end of the day I have many answers for it. It has to do with my mom, who was an extraordinary woman, and a great feminist. It has to do with the people in my life. It has to do with a lot of different things, but -- I don't know! Because I'm not just writing from the female characters for other people. I have a desire to see them in our culture -- that was not met for most of my childhood. Except occasionally by James Cameron. [From the 2011 San Diego Comic Con, in response to being asked why he writes strong female characters.]

  Joss Whedon

  Mom, Strong, Writing

• If somebody comes up to me, it's because they're moved by something I'm moved by. I've never taken a job I didn't love... So when somebody's coming up to me, or they're writing, they're in the same space I am in.

  Joss Whedon

  Jobs, Taken, Writing

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• Writing is the greatest thing that can happen to a human being. It's the best.

  Joss Whedon

  Writing, Humans, Happens

• Limitations are something that I latch onto - like working in genre, or if you're writing TV, there are act breaks, there's a length of time it's supposed to be. The restrictions of budget and sets can be really useful. When you can have everything, it's very hard to make things feel real and lived in.

  Joss Whedon

  Real, Writing, Tvs

  "Joss Whedon at SXSW: ‘You have to become your own network head.’" by Alison Willmore, www.indiewire.com. March 10, 2012.

• 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, and 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. We need Equality, and we kind of need it now. 'So why do you write these strong female characters?' Because you're still asking that question.

  Joss Whedon

  Strong, Writing, Character

• I'm the least confident person in so many ways. But I believed that if somebody gave me the chance to tell a story, I would tell a story [well enough] that the person who gave me the chance would get their money back.

  Joss Whedon

  Writing, Way, Stories

• 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

  Writing, Firefly, People

  "Joss Whedon on Comic Books, Abusing Language and the Joys of Genre". Interview with Adam Rogers, www.wired.com. May 3, 2012.

• If I wrote what I really think, I would be so sad all the time. We create to fill a gap - not just to avoid the idea of dying, it's to fill some particular gap in ourselves.

  Joss Whedon

  Writing, Thinking, Ideas

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