American - Writer | June 23, 1964 -
I don't like uncertainty. I don't play poker. I don't like bluffing.
Joss Whedon
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I always want to make sure I'm telling a story about people that I care about.
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My mom and dad were divorced, and although they got along very well, my mom thought American television was reprehensible, so I was raised on the BBC. I kind of agreed with her. We watched American news, though.
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I loved working with 'The Avengers' cast and we had a great time, but it was a job, and they had other commitments during that job, so they would go off and do other things.
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I was very proud of my father, and I admired him, but I always thought he was more interesting than the shows he was working on.
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The thing with the comics is that you have license to go down every alley your brain can think of.
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'Buffy' is about growing up. 'Angel' is really about already having grown up, dealing with what you've done, and redemption.
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Wonder Woman isn't Spider-man or Batman. She doesn't have a town, she has a world. That was more interesting to me than a kind of contained, rote superhero franchise.
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Especially, I think, living in any fantasy or science fiction world means really understanding what you're seeing and reading really densely on a level that a lot of people don't bother to read.
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I always tend to think just left of center, to remove myself from the world by one step. It is very freeing, and it's a particular way of coming at stories and looking at them that I find the most beautiful stuff that I know comes from, ultimately.
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I never tire of the heroes that I knew growing up. The fun is not that much different from doing a television show: You're stuck with a certain set of rules, and then, rather than trying to break them, it's just trying to peel away and see what's underneath them. That to me is really fun.
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I'll always protect what I'm working on. Which is why more and more of it is stuff only I can ruin.
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