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Everything we do really is just a little marker on the long road to death. And sometimes that's overwhelmingly depressing to me, and sometimes it makes me feel kinship and forgiveness. We've all got the same ending to the story. The way we make that story more elaborate, I got to respect.

Joss Whedon, Entertainment Weekly, 08-30-13

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I could not conceive that [fans] actually wanted me to sign something. It took a long time for me to figure out (a) just say 'Thank you' and sign the thing, and (b) smile in the picture, because if you try to just half-smile you're going to look constipated.

Joss Whedon, Entertainment Weekly, 08-30-13

- More quotations on: [Fame]

I go to movies expecting to have a whole experience. If I want a movie that doesn't end, I'll go to a French movie. A movie has to be complete within itself; it can't just build off the first one or play variations.

Joss Whedon, Entertainment Weekly, 08-30-13

- More quotations on: [Writing]

I'm the least confident person in so many ways. But I believed that if somebody gave me the chance to tell a story, I would tell a story [well enough] that the person who gave me the chance would get their money back.

Joss Whedon, Entertainment Weekly, 08-30-13

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I'm well aware when they fired the starting gun I was halfway down the track, but I still ran as fast as I could for 25 years.

Joss Whedon, Entertainment Weekly, 08-30-13

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If I wrote what I really think, I would be so sad all the time. We create to fill a gap - not just to avoid the idea of dying, it's to fill some particular gap in ourselves.

Joss Whedon, Entertainment Weekly, 08-30-13

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It's very important that we start creating new content again. We can only build on nostalgia so much before we have nothing left to build on.

Joss Whedon, Entertainment Weekly, 08-30-13

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Somebody once asked me if I have anything like faith, and I said I have faith in the narrative. I have a belief in a narrative that is bigger than me, that is alive and I trust will work itself out.

Joss Whedon, Entertainment Weekly, 08-30-13

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The one thing a creator can bring to the table when everybody else has all the money and power is centeredness and the ability to walk away. Never sit at a table you can't walk away from.

Joss Whedon, Entertainment Weekly, 08-30-13

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This is something that I do consider to be good advice: I took my first paycheck and I put it in the goddamn bank. Then I took my second paycheck and put it in the goddamn bank. I had seen the roller coaster of my father's career - top of the world, then unemployed - and I never wanted to take a job because I needed money.

Joss Whedon, Entertainment Weekly, 08-30-13

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You go to movies to see people you love suffer - that's why you go to the movies. You don't go to see a movie about a guy who already knows he has a wonderful life.

Joss Whedon, Entertainment Weekly, 08-30-13

- More quotations on: [Writing]

Everything is a drug. Family, art, causes, new shoes... We're all just tweaking our chem to avoid the void.

Joss Whedon, Twitter, 06-27-13

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