Joss Whedon Quotes

I don't really think about film or television or going directly to the internet. I just think about doing something that people are going to get excited about.

At the end of the day, it is just a movie, and we should remember that we're doing it for the audience, and we should have fun doing it. If we have fun doing it, it will come across on the screen.

I've always wanted to have the ability to do what I want to do. And there are so many things that I want to do because I love acting, I love directing, I love producing, I love being a mother, I love being a wife. If I had to choose one, just would put me in the crazy house.

I just always had a love for television and movies.

I love the magic of movies and television, and I always have since I was kid.

I love filmmakers.

Cinema was always my passion and dream.

I've been very passionate about storytelling ever since I was a kid. I really don't remember a time when I didn't want to be an actor, and ever since I could remember, I had a really extravagant imagination.

I just adore being on set. I adore storytelling. I can be on a set 70 hours a week and on those weekends, I'll still want to watch movies.

I think that's why I keep being drawn back to television, because I think it's one of the most creative outlets.

How much there is I want to do! I always feel that I haven't time to accomplish what I wish. I want to read much. I wanted to write a great deal. I want to make money.

I want to do directing and acting. I can do them at the same time - it's a challenge, but it's my dream.

Live television is the hottest medium. My passion for sports debate runs hot enough without a camera transporting it into your living room with 10 times more impact.

I never wanted to make movies just for me. I want to make movies that people watch.

The cool thing about my show and me is that I'm a writer, and I'm a writer first if I don't have music.

Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different.

I like whomever to come to my shows. I want people who want to see me to come see me. I don't want to force people. I don't want it to feel like a job!

The one thing for sure is, I don't ever want to waste a movie. I don't ever want to waste effort.

I love writing. I love to write, and I would eventually love to have some of my work produced.

I'm not always successful, but I take my job as a storyteller very seriously and want to make sure the audience has as much fun watching it as I am creating it.

There's so much I want to do. I love emotions, I love drama, I love comedy and I also want to take action up to another level, I love comics.

I never dreamed about being on a hit television series. I've never really related my dreams to that specific of a work goal. I was always enjoying the moment. Acting, writing, looking for roles and getting involved with people and trying to create something that would be entertaining to people. With "E.R." we were all very lucky to get this combination of people together in the right story in the right way to take it to the level it has reached.

What the readers want is a good story, and what the writers always want to luck into, it's a good story.

If you don't have fun doing the film, then the results of the film will never give you any fun.

News is almost more interesting to me than other people's fiction, if that makes sense. But other people's fiction in terms of design is still incredibly interesting to me.