I had older brothers, and I don’t think there’s anything worse than an older brother. They pretty much told me the end of everything they got to see before I did. Joss Whedon Read Quote
That’s the great thing about ‘The West Wing:’ you really felt like you were in the thick of it. Joss Whedon Read Quote
I never tire of the heroes that I knew growing up. The fun is not that much different from doing a television show: You’re stuck with a certain set of rules, and then, rather than trying to break them, it’s just trying to peel away and see what’s underneath them. That to me is really fun. Joss Whedon Read Quote
Oddly enough, I never studied writing. I studied almost everything except writing. Joss Whedon Read Quote
Something like ‘Much Ado’ happens, and even ‘Avengers’ happens because of the years of building connections and doing the work and proving yourself. Joss Whedon Read Quote
Running a TV show is always running a TV show; it’s never not running a TV show. Joss Whedon Read Quote
My first gig ever was writing looplines for a movie that had already been made. You know, writing lines over somebody’s back to explain something, to help make a connection, to add a joke, or to just add babble because the people are in frame and should be saying something. Joss Whedon Read Quote
The more you can create a structure by which people live in a fantastical situation and by which they will act, and the more you lay that out for the audience, the more they will feel at home in it. Joss Whedon Read Quote
TV does a thing that film can never do. It takes you to a place that no novel written after the late 19th century can. You can just go through people’s lives; it’s like a marriage. Joss Whedon Read Quote
