Joss Whedon Quotes

I don't want to tell people where to go get all my cool stuff.

Don't put my name on it. These are simply documents I make.

Any cartoon that can be liked by a committee is really not worth drawing; in fact, must not be drawn at all! Better to become a stockbroker.

But no one should have the right to manipulate my films in the first place.

The problem with doing a schlocky or big budget studio film is that it wouldn't actually be fun for me. It wouldn't be exciting.

No one ever confides a secret to one person only. No one destroys all copies of a document.

The only really safe thing to do is to write a diary of where you've been, what time you went to bed, what you ate. If I wrote honestly about everything I think it'd be a disaster. It would cause a lot of trouble.

There are moments when television systems are young and haven't formed properly, and there's room for lots of original stuff. Then things become more and more top-heavy with executives who are trying to guarantee the success of things.

My first priority is trying to protect my family.

You have to protect it too, you can't let just any stupid person take it and do something demoralizing with it. At the same time, I don't believe in being so rigid about controlling what happens either.

We don't want other people poking into our artistic pie.

Some journal writers choose to password-protect their site, which is either an incredibly responsible act or a paranoid one.

I think that was the whole idea behind doing the solo record was to be able to do musically whatever I wanted to do.

I'm fiercely protective of my privacy.

Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.

I don't even give my scripts to friends because I just feel it's, like, I don't need one more set of opinions.

If you got something you don't want other people to know, keep it in your pocket.

Because I could take this as an opportunity to create something that I pretty much guarantee nobody else was going to create in film.

If my friends don’t know what my plans are, then my enemies will not.

The human heart is fickle, and therefore peace must, according to the words of the prophet, safeguarded by law and order.

Protection does not imply the destruction of the protected

If you write your own material and perform your own material, then nobody can really expose it because if you keep your secrets close to yourself, then nobody can really expose you.

My agents have me in the Actors' Protection Program. It seems to be working very well. Nobody can find me.

I'd rather be the protector than the protected. I'm naturally the protector - being a mother and having a famous family. You have to navigate when it's right to protect.

I won't even let anyone in my house. I'm a private person.