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Joss Whedon
American
Writer
Born:
Jun 23
,
1964
Love
Me
People
Think
Time
You
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Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there.
Joss Whedon
Loneliness
Out
Scariest
About
Thing
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
Light
Hero
Before
Gone
Digging
About
He
Like
Look
Make
Make Up
Because
End
Up
End Of The Tunnel
Trying
Going
Just
Just Because
Tunnel
Who
Even
Keep
Right
Thing
Absolutely eat dessert first. The thing that you want to do the most, do that.
Joss Whedon
You
First
Dessert
Eat
Absolutely
Most
Want
Thing
Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women.
Joss Whedon
Women
Equality
Men
Men And Women
Earth
Like
Stand
Gravity
Need
Those of us who write spend our entire lives in an endless English class.
Joss Whedon
Class
Our
Spend
Those
Entire
Entire Lives
Write
Endless
Us
English
Who
Lives
The secret to multitasking is that it isn't actually multitasking. It's just extreme focus and organization.
Joss Whedon
Organization
Focus
Secret
Extreme
Just
Multitasking
Actually
Never sit at a table you can't walk away from.
Joss Whedon
You
Walk
Sit
Table
Never
Away
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
Morning
You
Jokes
Late
Late-Night
Favorite
Some
Writer
Had
Absurd
Most
Make
Deadline
Make Up
Because
Always
Up
Your
Four
Early
Night
Early Morning
I'm never interested in movies where you don't care about the people you're watching, and that's my biggest quibble about horror, that kids have gotten stupider and stupider.
Joss Whedon
You
People
Care
Kids
About
Horror
Never
Stupider
Gotten
dont Care
Where
Biggest
Interested
Movies
Watching
A great scientist is more open to a new idea than almost anybody.
Joss Whedon
Great
More
Open
Almost
Idea
New
New Idea
Scientist
Than
Anybody
There are two things that I cannot resist: one is musicals and the other is a spaceship in trouble. But I am smart enough not to combine the two things.
Joss Whedon
Smart
Trouble
Other
Enough
Musicals
Combine
Am
Cannot
Spaceship
Things
Resist
Two
There's a lot of anger in the Twitter-verse, as I've discovered. But there's a lot of love.
Joss Whedon
Love
Anger
Discovered
Lot
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
Business
People
Run
Structure
Networks
Particular
Content
Model
Anything
Them
Agenda
Business Model
Business People
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
Time
You
Writing
Sets
Everything
TV
Something
Restrictions
Onto
Feel
Budget
Like
Supposed
Genre
Make
Limitations
Real
Very
Breaks
Length
Really
Working
Act
Useful
Hard
Lived
Things
I'm a very gentle man, not unlike Gandhi.
Joss Whedon
Man
Unlike
Gentle
Very
Gandhi
I think it's not inaccurate to say that I had a perfectly happy childhood during which I was very unhappy.
Joss Whedon
Happy
Unhappy
Think
Say
Had
Perfectly
Very
Childhood
Which
Inaccurate
Happy Childhood
Actors wait tables, directors work at video stores.
Joss Whedon
Work
Wait
Tables
Directors
Stores
Video
Actor
When people say to me, 'Why are you so good at writing at women?' I say, 'Why isn't everybody?'
Joss Whedon
Good
Me
You
Women
People
Writing
Everybody
Say
People Say
Why
I'm a science fiction geek from birth - that's just who I am.
Joss Whedon
Science
Birth
Geek
Science Fiction
Am
Just
Fiction
Who
The only way to real mature love is to get past the tropes of what we consider 'romance.'
Joss Whedon
Love
Love Is
Past
Consider
Way
Only
Real
Mature
Get
Romance
I don't think I'm a celebrity. Maybe I'm a cult figure?
Joss Whedon
Think
Cult
Celebrity
Maybe
Figure
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
Action
Sum
Everything
Later
Months
Tell
Tend
Like
Lot
Rolls
Where
Stories
Then
Next
Momentum
Things
I didn't watch a lot of American television growing up. I just liked to read a lot and watch movies - movies, movies, and more movies. My family used to make fun of me because I'd like every movie I saw.
Joss Whedon
Family
Me
Every
Saw
Television
More
Like
Liked
Make
Read
Because
Lot
Up
American
Just
Movie
Movies
Used
American Television
Fun
Growing
Growing Up
Watch
I was raised by a hardcore feminist.
Joss Whedon
Feminist
Hardcore
Raised
Casting is storytelling.
Joss Whedon
Casting
Storytelling
Twelve-year-old me wanted to do everything: act and sing and paint and dance.
Joss Whedon
Me
Dance
Everything
Sing
Wanted
Act
Paint
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