Joss Whedon Quotes

Something like 'Alien,' that was not so easy. If there's any genre I wouldn't mind not having to do anymore, it would be science fiction. It's just all to do with the toys, and there's so much hanging around.

I'd love to do an action movie. Something with lots of stunts. Anything fast and dangerous and involving guns.

I particularly love watching 'Hardware' with a young audience.

Obviously it's a thrill to direct a 'Jurassic Park' film, and it's a great honor.

I'm just attracted to the action element of science fiction. It's great to sit in the editing room with the director and sound engineers and to create the feeling where your heart is racing and you're sitting at the edge of your seat and you find yourself holding your breath.

'Terminator 2' is so good. I love it.

When I was doing a movie called 'The Seeker,' I was fortunate enough to be able to do a lot of my own stunts.

Making the unbelievable believable is different on a set with 'Fantastic Four,' where it's like, 'Wind machines! Because the airship is coming in and you're pretending to be afraid!'

Car chases are as painstaking to make as they are fun to watch. They take a lot of time, and you have to keep the energy up.

I've never seen a 'Transporter' movie.

I think, the first movie I saw that made me go, 'How did they do that?' was 'Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster.'

I love 'Tron.'

I love to get thrown around, and the reality about it. I hate watching a movie, knowing the actors are faking it.

I was a big fan of 'The Matrix,' and I wanted to work with these people.

I'm a huge fan of 'Predator.'

That James Bond movie? The one where Bond skis off a cliff, shucks his skis, and parachutes to the ground? That's for me. That's what I want to be. A stuntman in a Bond movie.

In science-fiction films the monster should always be bigger than the leading lady.

Sometimes big budget means explosions! CGI! CGI, the possibilities are so limitless that it begins to be impractical. I'm more interested in the kinds of movies where the science fiction world has a set series of rules and you operate in it because of, maybe, constraints in the budget.

Next time you see someone sleeping, make believe you're in a science fiction movie. And whisper, 'The creature is regenerating itself.'

When you grow up in science fiction you grow up in everything! It's the greatest and only field worth growing up in. It's the total field.

Apparently I’ve been typecast in science fiction: I’m a Russian bisexual telepathic Jew.

When I was starting out, science fiction was a little genre over there, which only a few people read. But now -- where are you going to put, for example, Salman Rushdie? Or any of the South American writers? Most people get by calling them magical realists.

So it was a really pleasant surprise when [Independence Day] turned out to be a successful film. I don't know if you've heard that they're going to be re-releasing it next Fourth of July in 3-D. I've actually only seen it once, and it was in Hawaii, in a little theater in Oahu shortly after it was released. But Roland Emmerich is a really smart guy, and he makes really fun movies to watch.

Everybody always talks about the science fiction genre, in particular, which always makes me think about people in spaceships. I can appreciate that, but that's not really where I think my dramatist aspect lies.

I'm the only member of SFWA in Nebraska, but I don't pine away for the companionship of other science fiction writers. I [go] to very few conventions. I'm quite willing to be that eccentric who has a very odd job, quite happy to be the only science fiction writer in town.