Joss Whedon Quotes

Metal guys are huge nerds. A good percentage of them are either horror or sci-fi or comic book or fantasy nerds.

There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy.

Criticism is something that you have to take, regardless of what you do. Even if you go out there and try to make the most vanilla, non-offensive TV show possible, people are going to criticize you for doing that. It's just part of the game.

Well, you know, 'Spaceballs' is a weird combination, because it's a simple, sweet little fairytale, and it's crazy and out-there and making fun of and taking apart sci-fi, 'Star Wars', and 'Star Trek'.

It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.

I grew up with 'Star Trek,' so to get to do anything in it was fun for me.

Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.

'Blade Runner' was a comic strip. It was a comic strip! It was a very dark comic strip. Comic metaphorically.

I love 'Glee' so much. It just works - it's on the edge of ridiculous.

Our characters were antiseptic but we weren't. And if you remember what we did on BATMAN, as the scripts were written very funny, we played them very straight.

Hellboy is the first movie where both ends of the spectrum are combined.

The comedy in 'Star Trek' is always very subtle, if it's there at all.

I'm not a massive 'Star Trek' fan.

What makes me laugh is, of course, the absurd, the horror - anything that upsets me.

I'm proud of my relationship with 'Star Trek'! 'Star Trek' is a show that I am philosophically compatible with.

Satire, whether it be satire or not, everything has to have boundaries.

The best comedy and horror feel like they take place in reality. You have a rule or two you are bending or heightening, but the world around it is real.

I'm a bit of a geek, and I really like 'Buffy.'

I'm a huge Trekkie.

When I was a very young actor, I cruised around in a pretty cool vehicle called the Starship Enterprise.

'Wonder Showzen' is one of my favorite shows of all time. When I first saw it, I thought it was so funny and new and original and edgy and insane and subversive. I didn't know comedy could do that. It redefined what I thought you could do with a TV show.

I think comedy and satire are the strongest ways to deal with very serious themes and very painful themes.

It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.

'Black Mirror' is definitely my favorite show.

It's rare in satirical comedy not just to be cynical.