American - Writer | June 23, 1964 -
There was a time before I felt I was a real writer, when I was a yarn spinner and I just wanted to tell story until it was over. But then there came a time where I was like, 'No, I want to understand something through writing this that I might have not understood before. I want people to come away with something to think about.'
Joss Whedon
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Ultimately what I end up writing about is helplessness and the flipside of that, empowerment.
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Oddly enough, I never studied writing. I studied almost everything except writing.
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I am a fan of sequels even though they are inevitably awful.
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Who is to say who is the villain and who is the hero? Probably the dictionary.
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I kept telling my mom that reading comic books would pay off.
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A lot of people who saw 'The Avengers' didn't read comic books, don't like comic book movies, and enjoyed it. That was huge for me.
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I am not a fan of referencing your own work when it's in a different universe than what you're doing. That, to me, is a wink at the audience, and winking isn't actually cool when you're not, like, 10.
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I tend to tell stories that have a lot of momentum; it's not like 'and then months later...' I like things where the momentum of one action rolls into the next one so everything is the sum of that.
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Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.
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I don't want the giant ego. I don't want to become Kevin Costner, singing on the soundtrack to The Postman.
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As far as I am concerned, the first episode of Buffy was the beginning of my career. It was the first time I told a story from start to finish the way I wanted.
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