Joss Whedon Quotes

It's important to keep your power and not give it up.

I care about people, but if they try to control me, I don't care about them.

The only power you have is the word no.

I like a man who's going to tell me 'No!' sometimes.

I just go at my own pace and I like control of the TV and I like to decide when I take a shower and wash the dishes and stuff like that. So I don't know who would want to live with me to be honest!

Now I get to pick and choose exactly what I want to do.

I don't like people telling me what to do. I'm very independent.

I think control is a two-way street; sometimes people want to control things to keep them safe if they are afraid of life.

The important thing for me when I look at characters is to consider the kind of constraints placed upon them. Now, me personally, I don't like to have a lot of constraints placed upon me.

You have to be a brat in order to carve out your parameters, and you have to be a monster to anyone who gets in your way. But sometimes it's difficult to know when that's necessary and when you're just being a baby, throwing your rattle from the cage.

If the screen does not make room for me in the structure of their screenplay, I'll step out. I'll step back. I'd step back. I couldn't do it. I just couldn't do it.

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

I have only one counsel for you - be master.

I definitely do things on my terms, it may not seem that way but I actually do.

For the most part, I get to do what I want to do. If I want to play poker, I can. If I don't want to play poker, I don't have to.

Once you learn how to say no, that's about the only place that you'll have control of your work and what you do.

I am always floating around trying to tend to everyone and be free while at the same time enjoying some space.

If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs.

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.

Mostly, I'm in the very enviable position that no one dictates what I do.

I have to say I have never been comfortable with somebody else telling me what to do - in any way.

Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.

No, I don't tolerate pressure from anyone about anything.

I've been accused of being too flexible, too willing to mold myself to men, and that's something I'm constantly working on.

There's a fine line between saying, 'You can't tell me what I can and can't do,' and taking on board people's opinions.