Joss Whedon Quotes

I like directing myself; I feel like it's one less person to give notes to. There's an efficiency in it. I'm also kind of a control freak. So I like the fact that it gives me more control in the overall picture.

I like to be in control.

We've always been do-it-yourself. In that we've had complete control.

I have to take total control myself. I can't let anybody else do anything, for I find that I can do things better for me. I don't want to get other people playing with what they think that I'm trying to do.

Our mother always taught us to be in control of our voice and our bodies and our work, and she showed us that through her example. If she conjured up an idea, there was not one element of that idea that she was not going to have her hand in. She was not going to hand that over to someone. And I think it's been an interesting thing to navigate, especially watching you do the same in all aspects of your work: Society labels that a control freak, an obsessive woman, or someone who has an inability to trust her team or to empower other people to do the work, which is completely untrue.

When you stand up for yourself and try to be autonomous and self-determining, you're called a lot of names that we all know and that are very common. You may lose your job. You may lose custody of your child. You may be blamed for the failure of your marriage even though it was the man who couldn't tolerate an equal relationship.

Don't tell me what to do, don't tell me what to say. And please, when I go out with you, don't put me on display.

I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married

I live by my own rules (reviewed, revised, and approved by my wife).. but still my own.

Figuring things out for yourself is the only freedom anyone really has. Use that freedom.

No one tells me what to do -- in any capacity.

I am a control freak. I want to do what I want to do.

In this world, I call the shots and I think I know best.

A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.

But I also like to be in control, like anyone else. I try to achieve a balance.

I wouldn't play together with someone who likes to control everything like me.

I'm not a control maniac.

It's not like I let people do things for me, so I guess you can call me a control freak, or you can call me passionate.

I own 100% of everything because I like to control what I do.

I have only one counsel for you - be master.

I'm used to always deciding everything myself. It's a blessing, but also a terrible defect.

Freedom is control in your own life. I have more control now than in the past, and I'm learning the value of saying no. That's very important.

Man should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means.

I am in control at all times.

Stay small and control it yourself.