Joss Whedon Quotes

Comics is a great medium to get a lot of stories out.

After ten years of toiling away in Hollywood, I realized that there's no better place for new ideas than comics.

There's no limitation on comics, nothing. From a logical standpoint, how can there be a limitation on comics? You can use any word in the dictionary. You can put them in any order you want to. You can use a vast variety of illustrating styles. People could do all sorts of things.

Creative freedom is a huge carrot.

I never really read comics. I bought them, and I would draw them.

That is really the freedom that allows you to create something that is exciting because who knows what's true?

There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.

That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.

The best thing about Sci-Fi, which is my favorite genre, is that there are no rules for behavior. So you can do anything you want.

All the pictures I could never do, I'll do it in comics. All the comics I do are the pictures I could never do.

Anyone should be able to read comics.

I try and make little stories. Whether it's with a pencil or with bits of records, it's really the same thing.

There's a creative freedom to comics, and a fulfillment I get out of panel layouts and storytelling that is hard for me to get anywhere else.

In art, anything goes, and if it goes, it goes.

Performance art is the ultimate in creativity. Since it has so many possibilities at creativity, it's essence tends to become creativity.

That was the appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You're only limited by your imagination.

Well, yeah, sometimes I get a little too creative.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.

Comic books were just the means for me to tell the story.

You can't suppress creativity, you can't suppress innovation.

Cartoonists' dirty secret is that we tend to come up with stories that involve things that are really fun to draw.

What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals.