Joss Whedon Quotes

I'm not one of these anti-TV people.

I really don't like reality television and the nonsense that comes with it.

I kind of feel like people like to dump on 'Home Improvement,' and I don't know why.

I like transformative TV.

Everyone always wants to talk about 'True Blood' and 'Battlestar Galactica' - no one's even interested in 'Durham County.' It blew my mind when I came to Canada and no one asked me about the show. So many people didn't even know about it. They didn't even know it was on the air! It's very curious to me.

On 'The Simpsons,' I will say that we definitely like to comment on what's going on in the world, and we try to be funny. If we can figure out a way of being funny about it, then we've gone part of the way of accomplishing our task.

I was raised on 'Get Smart' and 'All in the Family' and 'M.A.S.H.,' and certainly when 'Cheers' came along, that was a big one.

I've decided 'Breaking Bad' may be one of the best TV shows ever, but I had to watch every last episode of the first four seasons to come to that conclusion.

In Britain you're more used to challenging drama. In America, TV is just boring, and numbing, and bloody terrible.

Well, certainly I think American television is - that's proper TV.

They say it figures MTV would do such a vulgar, awful, horrible show and they completely miss that it's satirizing the people who watch MTV.

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.

I'm completely done with reality TV.

We made satires of everything - news broadcasts and TV shows that we watched. When I look at them now, they are totally amateurish, but I find it quite remarkable that we were so skeptical of the world! My parents watched them and thought they were funny; they really encouraged us.

I don't consider myself a political comedian because it's so hard. It takes time away from me saying terrible things about TV.

I'm a great admirer of 'The Simpsons.' It's very surprising because it's backed by a right-wing television company in the U.S., and quite often it's poking fun at the people who would be its audience.

Sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air and stay there without a book, magazine, newspaper, profit-and-loss sheet or rating book to distract you—and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland.

It's a very powerful medium now, and should be celebrated as such, because we have the greatest television in the world.

I think 'Empire' is entertaining. It's a soap opera. Does it touch on stereotypes? Sure, it does... I don't know if that's necessarily good or bad.

There's not a lot of good TV.

I've been such a fan of American TV.

I'm not one of those who thinks there is something inherently bad or inferior about watching television.

'The Daily Show' was amazing because I learned so much.

There's so many shows, whether it's 'Last Week Tonight' or 'The Daily Show' or 'Full Frontal' or 'Late Night With Seth Meyers,' that are really doing great stuff talking about what's going on in the world and what's going on with the president, and those stories that everyone winds up talking about, whether on social media or in their jobs.

I've got 'Lost' and '24' on TiVo. And I'm an 'American Idol' fan.