Joss Whedon Quotes

A mathematical proof is beautiful, but when you're finished, it's really only about one thing. A story can be about many things.

When you're telling stories, you are actually trying to illuminate some portion of the truth in an artful way. The story may immediately seem to be a lie, but it's like an impressionistic painting - you see the light and the color better than you would with a photo-realistic piece.

I think telling stories is like pushing something. Pushing against uncreation itself, maybe.

A story doesn't live until it is imagined in someone's mind.

To me, writing is fun. It doesn't matter what you're writing, as long as you can tell a story.

I think sometimes a narrative can come out of a single word.

Whether our work is art or science or the daily work of society, it is only the form in which we explore our experience which is different.

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

Art is more engaging that propaganda.

It's always the story that interests me.

I think my love is storytelling. No matter what it is, it's storytelling. And so whatever the medium is, what's right for the story, I enjoy doing it.

Whether you're an actor, producer, writer, or director, it's all about the story you're going to tell.

It's through engagement with the world, and not separation from it, that something with meaning gets produced.

I've always been fascinated with storytelling.

It's what people have always done. They have always told stories, put on plays. It's characters and narrative and thought and context and resolution so you reflect the way the world is in some way. It comes out of experience. I think it's OK to do that.

I love entertaining and I love storytelling.

I think, as human beings, we all have a fundamental mode, a basic way of relating to the rest of reality, and for me, it's always instinctively been about sound making and trying to extract information, grammar, meaning from sound making. That's been my way of navigating reality that's very personal; a painter might say they make marks or look.

If you're singing, you're telling a story. So to tell it and tell it right, that's it.

In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.

Art is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar. We have to recognize that the language of art, all art, is not our mother tongue.

We've had fiction from the time of cave drawings. I think fiction, storytelling, and narrative in general will always exist in some form.

Fiction is the only way to redeem the formlessness of life

To be simple, I would say a story has to have a bit of narrative, if only "she says," and then enough of a creation of a different time and place to transport the reader.

I just always try to find an interesting story and tell it well. That's a hard enough thing to do, whether it's a piece of fiction or it's a small piece of reality. I just look for good story.

Take a step, breathe in the world, give it out again in story, poem, song, art.