Joss Whedon Quotes

It's hard being away from home. But other than that, performing is the highlight of my day.

I don't make movies because I love to act. I make movies because I like to make movies, and I like to be a part of that process.

My career always took me away from home, I was always away from home and I just wanted to be at home.

I had family and friends back home. Just because I could potentially feel alone in Los Angeles, that didn't mean I was alone.

Whenever I get days off, I go home, or friends and family come up. I'm in contact with them every day, so it's like we live next door, but obviously we live in two different countries. Football is my job, and everyone around me has given me the opportunity to purely concentrate on football, and everyone else worries about everything else.

I don't like to be away from my family for long periods.

A film goes through so many hands, that by the time it's done, it might not resemble what you thought you were making.

I just don't know how to deal with so many people giving me that much affection. I never had that in my life.

It is very hard leaving home for life on the road. The toll that it takes is actually immeasurable, and you can think all you want about what it does to your relationships, but the way it actually plays out is very deep and very unique to those personalities that are involved.

It's tough to be away from my wife and my daughter every day during the bubble. So to have my brother here, it's special for me.

The hardest part about touring is being away from family and friends. When you're gone for a long time, it's especially hard for me to remember to keep in touch with certain people because there's so much going on on the road.

I'm pretty busy in my life and I'm very aware of what it takes to direct a movie. It takes a lot out of you; it takes a lot out of the rest of your life, from other people in your life. I don't lie around hungering for that consumption very often.

I'm sort of socially inept, so music is my way to connect to people. It's a means of socializing and having a life. Otherwise I wouldn't bother. I would just make home recordings and play them for myself. And that's not really healthy.

The harder the circumstances under which you're making a movie, generally the better the friends you make. You're far away from home and so you're kind of lonely, and you end up all gravitating towards each other and the bar every night. It tends to be inversely proportionate to the comfort level on the movie, how close you become to everybody.

I do not make films primarily for children. I make them for the child in all of us, whether we be six or sixty.

The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world.

In the end all books are written for your friends.

We're lonely, but we're afraid of intimacy. And so from social networks to sociable robots, we're designing technologies that will give us the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship.

In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.

The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action I can recall in our association. I was alone.

Oh my only friend, my best beloved, the gates are open in my house—do not pass by like a dream.

I think most cartoonists are solitary, lonely kids who use their work as a way to try to connect with the world. If I had any other skills that were more performative - if I could have been a musician or an actor - I'm sure I would have pursued that instead in order to get that instant feedback and to hear applause.

We poets would die of loneliness but for women, and we choose our men friends that we may have somebody to talk about women with. Letter to Olivia Shakespeare, 1936

Directing takes a good chunk of your life out. It's a very hard thing. As an actor, you go in for a couple of months and do your job, and then you move onto another one. As a director, it's with you for quite some time and you're responsible for the entire thing, whether the results are good or bad, or whether people throw darts at you or put you on a pedestal.

I don't know how much longer I can keep going without a friend. I used to be able to do it very easily, but that was before I knew what having a friend was like.