Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE.
– Joss Whedon on being creative.
Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE.
– Joss Whedon on being creative.
I like my chances. But it is absolutely still too amorphous for me to make any kind of announcement about it. I’m out there trying, and there’s other people trying, to put it together. But until something falls in place, I really can’t say.
– Joss Whedon
It’s a question of opening it up, and it’s a question of closing it down, … You know, opening it up in the sense of: We need a giant, epic story that is not the kind of thing these people usually get involved in in a TV series, which is more mundane. You need a reason for this to be a movie. The closing comes in making sure that it is accessible to everybody: that you explain everybody as much as you need to, that you explain the world as much as you need to, that you begin and you end, that you have an arc for the character, as well as a plot that has a question and then an answer.
– Joss Whedon
I watched that episode a thousand times [Once more, with feeling]….because I’m an incredible narcissist.
– Joss Whedon
Crazy crisp dialogue. Incredibly tight plotting. Big emotion.
– Joss Whedon
I wrote movies every week, that’s what I did. It was about finding that moment that is so good, so romantic, so heroic, so exciting – and I literally had producers telling me, ‘You have too much visual information.’ Because most television is radio with faces. But I kept pushing against it, so the show resonated, and felt bigger than it was.
– Joss Whedon
The idea behind the show, … was to take nine people and say, ‘Nine people look out into the blackness of space, and see nine different things.’ But science fiction opens you up to every element of history that you want, because the future is just the past in a blender. So I could take anything from the human experience I’ve read about or felt or seen. Like, what is it like after a war? It doesn’t matter which war or which country – what is it like for the people who lost?
– Joss Whedon
It is, in an unprecedented sense, your movie. So, it if sucks, it’s your fault.
– Joss Whedon
It’s very sweet to mention the word sequel, … Obviously that’s the way my brain works. It continues to tell stories. So it’s inevitable for me that I do that, and of course I love this universe. I love these people, and I would jump at the chance to do it again.
– Joss Whedon
I felt this was a story that had not been told, … I just needed somebody to believe as strongly as I did, and I found a giant corporation that did, which is the best person of all!
– Joss Whedon
I really love `Serenity.’ I’m really proud of it and excited to see it my guys on the big screen, bringing something new to it, … But `Firefly’ was a different animal, something I will regret losing until the day they put me in a box, because I did have a lot of good stories I wanted to tell.
– Joss Whedon
It was really fun, … Though I did discover that the Chinese language can say a lot with very few syllables, which was a nightmare for me as I had to keep writing longer and longer curses so my actors would say something which didn’t sound like ‘Nah.’
– Joss Whedon
