Joss Whedon Quotes

I think a lot of the best ideas come from the grassroots; I'm someone who does not like a bunker mentality and does not like groupthink.

I'd like to be known as the person who saw things from a different point of view to others.

In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized.

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and remains a freelance.

My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own.

Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society…

I've always had my own opinions and have always been somebody who thinks outside the box.

I was inherently slightly more bitter or cynical and that kept me from going to the commercial formulaic crowd. Also, I went to an art college and I did my foundation in art.

With the 'Boosh,' we were trying to do this strange, weird thing that had its own language and visual style, and it wasn't really what the powers that be wanted.

I think I have kind of have the same mind-set that Kanye West has. He just likes to do his thing.

I just try to go outside the box. In fact, I go outside the box so much I go... 'What box!'

If you're looking where everybody else is looking, you're looking in the wrong spot.

I don't really put too much emphasis on what somebody else might think of it. Otherwise your putting limits on yourself.

I came from the outside, the rules of photography didn't interest me.

My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist. Although I am not a Communist I refused to fall in line by hating them.

How could I be anything but a dissenter? Who wants the opinion of a group?

I don't live by "The Rules" you know, and if there's one person who has influenced me in that way of thinking, someone who is a maverick, someone who does 'that' to the system then it's Ian Botham.

I rarely agree with what clients ask me to do.

I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world we actually have, because the world we actually have does not meet my standards. Okay, so I should revise my standards; I'm out of step. I should yield to reality. I have never yielded to reality. That's what SF is all about. If you wish to yield to reality, go read Philip Roth; read the New York literary establishment mainstream bestselling writers

I do this real moron thing, and it's called thinking. And apparently I'm not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

I’VE ALWAYS BEEN A REBEL. I NEVER DO THINGS THE WAY THEY’RE SUPPOSED TO BE DONE. EITHER I GO IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION OR I CREATE A NEW DIRECTION FOR MYSELF, REGARDLESS OF WHAT THE RULES ARE OR WHAT SOCIETY SAYS.

I think when I finally got it in my head that I was going to do the story, I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.