WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Wed, 09 Sep 2026 21:49:46 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg Whedon, Joss – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Whedon, Joss -- “Dollhouse’s Joss Whedon Answers Your Questions,” Hulu Blog (9 Mar 2009) https://wist.info/whedon-joss/34279/ https://wist.info/whedon-joss/34279/#respond Fri, 17 Jun 2016 15:21:23 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=34279 If you have a good idea, get it out there. For every idea I’ve realized, I have ten I sat on for a decade till someone else did it first. Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE.

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Joss Whedon (b. 1964) American screenwriter, author, producer [Joseph Hill Whedon]
“Dollhouse’s Joss Whedon Answers Your Questions,” Hulu Blog (9 Mar 2009)
    (Source) ]]> https://wist.info/whedon-joss/34279/feed/ 0 34279 Whedon, Joss -- “I Am Joss Wedon — AMA,” Reddit (10 Apr 2012) https://wist.info/whedon-joss/27179/ https://wist.info/whedon-joss/27179/#respond Wed, 15 Oct 2014 13:07:59 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=27179 All worthy work is open to interpretations the author did not intend. Art isn’t your pet — it’s your kid. It grows up and talks back to you.


Joss Whedon (b. 1964) American screenwriter, author, producer [Joseph Hill Whedon]
“I Am Joss Wedon — AMA,” Reddit (10 Apr 2012)
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On fan fiction and academic analysis. ]]> https://wist.info/whedon-joss/27179/feed/ 0 27179 Whedon, Joss -- “Mom, He’s Doing It Again…”, Whedonesque.com (10 Nov 2007) https://wist.info/whedon-joss/27997/ https://wist.info/whedon-joss/27997/#respond Thu, 15 Jan 2015 13:08:35 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=27997 People with real power never fear of losing it. People with control think of little else.


Joss Whedon (b. 1964) American screenwriter, author, producer [Joseph Hill Whedon]
“Mom, He’s Doing It Again…”, Whedonesque.com (10 Nov 2007)
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Joss Whedon (b. 1964) American screenwriter, author, producer [Joseph Hill Whedon]
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(on Hollywood) ]]> https://wist.info/whedon-joss/4138/feed/ 0 4138 Whedon, Joss -- Buffy the Vampire Slayer, “Lie to Me” (3 Nov 1997) https://wist.info/whedon-joss/15554/ https://wist.info/whedon-joss/15554/#respond Tue, 30 Aug 2011 12:24:40 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=15554 “Does it ever get easy?”
“You mean life?”
“Yeah. Does it get easy?”
“What do you want me to say?”
“Lie to me.”
“Yes, it’s terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and we always defeat them and save the day. No-one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.” 


Joss Whedon (b. 1964) American screenwriter, author, producer [Joseph Hill Whedon]
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, “Lie to Me” (3 Nov 1997) ]]> https://wist.info/whedon-joss/15554/feed/ 0 15554 Whedon, Joss -- Firefly (2003) https://wist.info/whedon-joss/4948/ https://wist.info/whedon-joss/4948/#respond Thu, 29 Sep 2005 17:23:40 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/wp/?p=4948 ZOE: You sanguine about the kind of reception we’re apt to receive on an Alliance ship, Captain?
MAL: Absolutely. What’s sanguine mean?
ZOE: Sanguine — hopeful. Plus, point of interest, it also means bloody.
MAL: Well, that pretty much covers all the options, don’t it?


Joss Whedon (b. 1964) American screenwriter, author, producer [Joseph Hill Whedon]
Firefly (2003) ]]> https://wist.info/whedon-joss/4948/feed/ 0 4948 Whedon, Joss -- Firefly, 1×01 “Serenity” (pilot) (20 Dec 2002) https://wist.info/whedon-joss/28165/ https://wist.info/whedon-joss/28165/#respond Thu, 29 Jan 2015 12:53:52 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=28165 BENDIS: We’re gonna die.
MAL: We’re not gonna die. We can’t die, Bendis. You know why? Because we are so — very — pretty. We are just too pretty for God to let us die.


Joss Whedon (b. 1964) American screenwriter, author, producer [Joseph Hill Whedon]
Firefly, 1×01 “Serenity” (pilot) (20 Dec 2002) ]]> https://wist.info/whedon-joss/28165/feed/ 0 28165 Whedon, Joss -- Firefly, 1×01 “Serenity” (pilot) (20 Dec 2002) https://wist.info/whedon-joss/28239/ https://wist.info/whedon-joss/28239/#respond Thu, 05 Feb 2015 17:45:56 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=28239 [Wash is at his station on the bridge, playing with plastic dinosaurs.]

WASH [as Stegosaur]: Yes … yes, this is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it … This Land.
WASH [as Allosaur]: I think we should call it … your grave!
WASH [as Stegosaur]: Ah! Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!
WASH [as Allosaur]: Ha ha ha! Mine is an evil laugh! Now DIE!
WASH [as Stegosaur]: Oh no, God, oh dear God in Heaven …


Joss Whedon (b. 1964) American screenwriter, author, producer [Joseph Hill Whedon]
Firefly, 1×01 “Serenity” (pilot) (20 Dec 2002) ]]> https://wist.info/whedon-joss/28239/feed/ 0 28239 Whedon, Joss -- Firefly, 1×01 “Serenity” (pilot) (20 Dec 2002) https://wist.info/whedon-joss/28368/ https://wist.info/whedon-joss/28368/#respond Thu, 19 Feb 2015 14:47:04 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=28368 ZOE: I know something ain’t right.

WASH: Sweetie, we’re crooks. If everything were right, we’d be in jail.


Joss Whedon (b. 1964) American screenwriter, author, producer [Joseph Hill Whedon]
Firefly, 1×01 “Serenity” (pilot) (20 Dec 2002) ]]> https://wist.info/whedon-joss/28368/feed/ 0 28368 Whedon, Joss -- Firefly, 1×01 “Serenity” (pilot) (20 Dec 2002) https://wist.info/whedon-joss/28401/ https://wist.info/whedon-joss/28401/#respond Thu, 26 Feb 2015 16:31:21 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=28401 SIMON: What happens if they board us?
ZOE: If they take the ship, they’ll rape us to death, eat our flesh, and sew our skins into their clothing. And if we’re very, very lucky, they’ll do it in that order.


Joss Whedon (b. 1964) American screenwriter, author, producer [Joseph Hill Whedon]
Firefly, 1×01 “Serenity” (pilot) (20 Dec 2002) ]]> https://wist.info/whedon-joss/28401/feed/ 0 28401 Whedon, Joss -- Firefly, 1×01 “Serenity” (pilot) (20 Dec 2002) https://wist.info/whedon-joss/28504/ https://wist.info/whedon-joss/28504/#respond Thu, 05 Mar 2015 14:20:05 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=28504 SIMON: I’m trying to put this as delicately as I can. How do I know you won’t kill me in my sleep?
MAL: You don’t know me, son, so let me explain this to you once: If I ever kill you, you’ll be awake, you’ll be facing me, and you’ll be armed.
SIMON: Are you always this sentimental?
MAL: I had a good day.


Joss Whedon (b. 1964) American screenwriter, author, producer [Joseph Hill Whedon]
Firefly, 1×01 “Serenity” (pilot) (20 Dec 2002) ]]> https://wist.info/whedon-joss/28504/feed/ 0 28504 Whedon, Joss -- Firefly, 1×01 “Serenity” (pilot) (20 Dec 2002) https://wist.info/whedon-joss/28588/ https://wist.info/whedon-joss/28588/#respond Thu, 12 Mar 2015 14:46:01 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=28588 MAL: How come you didn’t turn on me, Jayne?
JAYNE: Money wasn’t good enough.
MAL: What happens when it is?
JAYNE: Well, that’ll be an interesting day.
MAL: I imagine it will.


Joss Whedon (b. 1964) American screenwriter, author, producer [Joseph Hill Whedon]
Firefly, 1×01 “Serenity” (pilot) (20 Dec 2002) ]]> https://wist.info/whedon-joss/28588/feed/ 0 28588 Whedon, Joss -- Firefly, 1×02 “The Train Job” [with Tim Minear] (20 Sep 2002) https://wist.info/whedon-joss/28720/ https://wist.info/whedon-joss/28720/#respond Thu, 19 Mar 2015 12:30:48 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=28720 INARA: What did I say to you about barging into my shuttle?

MAL: That it was manly and impulsive?

INARA: Yes, precisely. Only the exact phrase I used was, “Don’t.”


Joss Whedon (b. 1964) American screenwriter, author, producer [Joseph Hill Whedon]
Firefly, 1×02 “The Train Job” [with Tim Minear] (20 Sep 2002) ]]> https://wist.info/whedon-joss/28720/feed/ 0 28720 Whedon, Joss -- Firefly, 1×06 “Our Mrs. Reynolds” (2 Oct 2002) https://wist.info/whedon-joss/28788/ https://wist.info/whedon-joss/28788/#respond Thu, 26 Mar 2015 12:44:50 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=28788 MAL: I would appreciate it if one person on this boat would not assume I’m an evil, lecherous hump.

ZOE: No one’s saying that, sir.

WASH: Yeah, we’re pretty much just giving each other significant glances and laughing incessantly.


Joss Whedon (b. 1964) American screenwriter, author, producer [Joseph Hill Whedon]
Firefly, 1×06 “Our Mrs. Reynolds” (2 Oct 2002) ]]> https://wist.info/whedon-joss/28788/feed/ 0 28788 Whedon, Joss -- Firefly, 1×06 “Our Mrs. Reynolds” (2 Oct 2002) https://wist.info/whedon-joss/28857/ https://wist.info/whedon-joss/28857/#respond Wed, 01 Apr 2015 12:23:10 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=28857 MAL: Well, my days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle.


Joss Whedon (b. 1964) American screenwriter, author, producer [Joseph Hill Whedon]
Firefly, 1×06 “Our Mrs. Reynolds” (2 Oct 2002) ]]> https://wist.info/whedon-joss/28857/feed/ 0 28857 Whedon, Joss -- Firefly, 1×14 “Objects in Space” (13 Dec 2002) https://wist.info/whedon-joss/28950/ https://wist.info/whedon-joss/28950/#respond Thu, 09 Apr 2015 12:48:27 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=28950 WASH: Little River gets more colorful by the moment. What’ll she do next?

ZOE: Either blow us all up or rub soup in our hair. It’s a toss-up.

WASH: I hope she does the soup thing. It’s always a hoot and we don’t all die from it.


Joss Whedon (b. 1964) American screenwriter, author, producer [Joseph Hill Whedon]
Firefly, 1×14 “Objects in Space” (13 Dec 2002) ]]> https://wist.info/whedon-joss/28950/feed/ 0 28950 Whedon, Joss -- Serenity (2005) https://wist.info/whedon-joss/29040/ https://wist.info/whedon-joss/29040/#respond Thu, 16 Apr 2015 11:50:35 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=29040 JAYNE: I just don’t get it. How’s a man get so wrong? Cuttin’ on his own face, rapin’ and murdering. Hell, I’ll kill a man in a fair fight. Or if I think he’s gonna start a fair fight. Or if he bothers me. Or if there’s a woman. Or if I’m gettin’ paid. Mostly only when I’m gettin’ paid. But these Reavers — last ten years they show up like the bogeyman from stories. Eating people alive? Where’s that get fun?


Joss Whedon (b. 1964) American screenwriter, author, producer [Joseph Hill Whedon]
Serenity (2005) ]]> https://wist.info/whedon-joss/29040/feed/ 0 29040 Whedon, Joss -- Serenity (2005) https://wist.info/whedon-joss/29109/ https://wist.info/whedon-joss/29109/#respond Thu, 23 Apr 2015 12:29:12 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=29109 BOOK: Only one thing is gonna walk you though this, Mal: belief.

MAL: You know I always look to you for counsel, but sermons make me sleepy, Shepherd. I ain’t looking for help on high. That’s a long wait for a train don’t come.

BOOK: When I talk about belief, why do you always assume I’m talking about God?


Joss Whedon (b. 1964) American screenwriter, author, producer [Joseph Hill Whedon]
Serenity (2005) ]]> https://wist.info/whedon-joss/29109/feed/ 0 29109 Whedon, Joss -- Bronze Beta board (14 Feb 2004) https://wist.info/whedon-joss/27870/ https://wist.info/whedon-joss/27870/#respond Thu, 01 Jan 2015 18:45:32 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=27870 Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FRIKKIN’ SHOW. I totally shoulda took the road that had all those people on it. Damn.


Joss Whedon (b. 1964) American screenwriter, author, producer [Joseph Hill Whedon]
Bronze Beta board (14 Feb 2004)
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Posted after learning the WB had canceled "Angel". ]]> https://wist.info/whedon-joss/27870/feed/ 0 27870 Whedon, Joss -- Equality Now Tribute Address (15 May 2006) https://wist.info/whedon-joss/28103/ https://wist.info/whedon-joss/28103/#respond Thu, 22 Jan 2015 13:05:34 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=28103 So, why do you write these strong female characters?

Because you’re still asking me that question.


Joss Whedon (b. 1964) American screenwriter, author, producer [Joseph Hill Whedon]
Equality Now Tribute Address (15 May 2006)
    (Source) ]]> https://wist.info/whedon-joss/28103/feed/ 0 28103 Whedon, Joss -- Interview with Michael Silverberg (NPR) https://wist.info/whedon-joss/27922/ https://wist.info/whedon-joss/27922/#respond Thu, 08 Jan 2015 13:55:28 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=27922 I think there’s a lot of people out there who say we must not have horror in any form, we must not say scary things to children because it will make them evil and disturbed. … That offends me deeply, because the world is a scary and horrifying place, and everyone’s going to get old and die, if they’re that lucky. To set children up to think that everything is sunshine and roses is doing them a great disservice. Children need horror because there are things they don’t understand. It helps them to codify it if it is mythologized, if it’s put into the context of a story, whether the story has a happy ending or not. If it scares them and shows them a little bit of the dark side of the world that is there and always will be, it’s helping them out when they have to face it as adults.


Joss Whedon (b. 1964) American screenwriter, author, producer [Joseph Hill Whedon]
Interview with Michael Silverberg (NPR)
    (Source) ]]> https://wist.info/whedon-joss/27922/feed/ 0 27922 Whedon, Joss -- Tweet (3 Oct 2014) https://wist.info/whedon-joss/29812/ https://wist.info/whedon-joss/29812/#respond Thu, 02 Jul 2015 19:27:09 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=29812 He died doing what he loved most: not being dead.


Joss Whedon (b. 1964) American screenwriter, author, producer [Joseph Hill Whedon]
Tweet (3 Oct 2014)
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