Joss Whedon Quotes

I'm not in a race with anybody to make the biggest hit movie anymore. I am just trying to tell stories that I can stay interested in for the two years it takes me to supervise the writing and to direct them.

Every script I've written and every series I've produced have expressed the things I most deeply believe.

With the success of 'Spiderwick,' it's allowed me to be able to have the freedom to really be able to tell the stories that I really wanted to tell, that I've always wanted to tell.

I think films are bigger than structure.

It's impossible to control the reception of your work - the only thing you can control is the experience of writing itself, and the work you create.

I have always believed that facilitating good, unusual content should be one of my prerogatives as someone who has spent half his life in cinema.

You can't wait for someone to give you a show. That can't be the first time you're writing and drawing a character.

Every show I've ever, you know, produced, essentially it's the show I want to watch myself.

I can't tell you how freeing it is to have my own label. For the first time in my career, I have total control.

I'm trying to do the kind of projects that I want to see in the theatre.

You become the movie you are making.

But I'm never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is. The limits of my imagination is the only thing that's gonna stop me.

When you direct a movie, you're basically looking at a story, the way you want to look at it. You bring that director's vision, and I'm totally open for that.

I love being creative. I love acting, but I also love directing because you get to have a vision for the whole and bring that vision to fruition.

One of the reasons to do documentaries is that. There's more sense of creating something, more sense of my own soul in the documentaries than in movies, because I don't write the movies I do.

One of the great joys of being able to write something you can make, if you get certain actors you want and love, you're kind of buying yourself a front row seat to watch them work.

You don't make a movie, the movie makes you.

You know I'm proud that I was able to develop and produce movies that I wanted to make.

Audiences are very willing to be taken somewhere, and to ask an audience beforehand what it wants is probably, I think, a mistake. Much better you should tell them what you want and hope they agree with it.

No one was creating and I always wanted to be created on.

You start as an audience member and create a world you're interested in, and then you move into the telling of those stories, bringing what has interested you as an audience member.

Writing and directing your own film, for me, has been the best experience of my life.

At least I want to be making films that are somehow born out of me that are stories I want to tell. The challenge is figuring out how to do it where you can make them personal, yet still deliver to an audience a film experience that is satisfying and emotional, and that's what I'm trying to do.

I think one of the privileges of being a filmmaker is the opportunity to remain a kind of perpetual student.

When you're writing, it's all up to you, and you don't have to make any compromises. And when you're directing, there's this intense pleasure you get from working with all these really talented people, and pooling the efforts towards a common goal. I like all the aspects of film-making.