Trivia and Quotes
Quotes
 Passion, it lies in all of us, sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted... unbidden... it will stir... open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us... guides us... passion rules us all, and we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love... the clarity of hatred... and the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion maybe we`d know some kind of peace... but we would be hollow... Empty rooms shuttered and dank. Without passion we`d be truly dead. When I say, "I love you," it`s not because I want you or because I can`t have you. It has nothing to do with me. I love what you are, what you do, how you try. I`ve seen your kindness and your strength. I`ve seen the best and the worst of you. And I understand with perfect clarity exactly what you are. You`re a hell of a woman.
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[when asked how he designed each unstoppable season villain to be unique and threatening:] "We got into a problem with that. We kept saying, "This monster can`t be killed." It`s like, "Well, have you used violence?" It was never about the unstoppableness. It was never about the monster. It was about the emotion. The monster came from that. We didn`t always make them unique. We tried as much as possible, but what was important was how they related to the characters and that`s what made them unique." [April 2003]
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The times are chaotic. For me, I would hope that people look at [_Angel" (1999/I)_] and gain strength by it. With everything that I do, I hope that they see people struggling to live decent, moral lives in a completely chaotic world. They see how hard it is, how often they fail, and how they get up and keep trying. That, to me, is the most important message I`m ever going to tell." [The Vancouver Sun, February 3, 2004]
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Always be yourself... unless you suck.
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[Talking about Serenity and making a movie] When you`re making a movie, you gotta Amp it up, you gotta go to a greater scale and everything is gonna be a little grander, you hero is gonna be more `heroicaler`.... yes that`s a word..... now....
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It`s fascinating to me, the shows that I`ve always loved the best, Hill Street Blues" (1981), "Wiseguy," "Twin Peaks" (1990) have always been shows that did have accumulative knowledge. One of the reasons why "The X Files" (1993) started to leave me cold was that after five years, I just started yelling at Scully, `You`re an idiot. It`s a monster,` and I couldn`t take it anymore. I need people to grow, I need them to change, I need them to learn and explore, you know, and die and do all of the things that people do in real life. And so [on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (1997)] we`re very, very strict about making sure that things track, that they`re presented in the right way. Because, ultimately -- and this is one of the things that I did find out after we had aired, the soap opera, the characters, the interaction between them is really what people respond to more than anything else. And although we came out of it as a sort of monster-of-the-week format, it was clear that the interaction was the thing that people were latching onto. So we were happy to sort of go with that and really play it up and really see where these characters were going to go." [NPR Fresh Air, 8 November 2002]
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Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there.
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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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[about tearful emotions while filming the last episode of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" :] "The last scene that I filmed [involved] a one-day player with no lines, which is great. I actually said, `I want the last scene to be a one-day player with no lines, so I don`t lose it.`" [The New York Post, May 20, 2003]
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I love to write. I love it. I mean there`s nothin in the world I like better, and that includes sex, probably because I`m so very bad at it.
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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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But nowadays I`m really cranky about comics. Because most of them are just really, really poorly written soft-core. And I miss good old storytelling. And you know what else I miss? Super powers. Why is it now that everybody`s like I can reverse the polarity of your ions!" Like in one big flash everybody`s Doctor Strange. I like the guys that can stick to walls and change into sand and stuff. I don`t understand anything anymore. And all the girls are wearing nothing, and they all look like they have implants. Well, I sound like a very old man, and a cranky one, but it`s true."
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I`d rather make a show 100 people need to see, than a show that 1000 people want to see.
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[after The WB channel canceled the series, causing hurt feelings among the cast and crew -- hurt which was dramatized in the finale] "We put a lot of that heartbreak into the script, into the show, so it would hurt as much to watch as it did to have it taken away from us. I would not have been as brutal about the ending -- had we had another season." (May 10, 2004)
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[about his "Buffy" and "Angel" TV shows] "Redemption is something you have to fight for in a very personal, down-dirty way. Some of our characters lose that, some stray from that, and some regain it." (May 13, 2004)
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Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.
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Joss likes those old movie serials. -- Marti Noxon, about Whedon`s cliffhanger endings to episodes [January 26, 2003]
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Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.
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Regarding why his Wonder Woman script wasn`t accepted: It was in an outline, and not in a draft, and they didn`t like it. So I never got to write a draft where I got to work out exactly what I wanted to do. In terms of the meaning, the feeling, the look, the emotion, the character, the relationship with Steve Trevor, all of that stuff, I never wavered for a second... The lack of enthusiasm was overwhelming. It was almost staggering, and that was kind of from the beginning. I just don`t think my take on Wonder Woman was ever to their liking.
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I`m a very hard-line, angry atheist. Yet I am fascinated by the concept of devotion.
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Trivia
His last television project was a show called "Firefly," which offered his unique view of the future.
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Has cited the X-Men character Kitty Pryde (AKA Shadowcat) as a major influence for the character of Buffy.
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Writing is clearly in his blood, since he could arguably be the world's first third-generation television writer. His grandfather was a successful sitcom writer in the 1950s and '60s on "The Donna Reed Show" (1958) and "Leave It to Beaver" (1957), and his father wrote for the likes of "The Dick Cavett Show" (1968), "Alice" (1976) and "Benson" (1979).
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Has claimed that his script for Firefly episode "Our Mrs. Reynolds" is his personal favorite thing he has ever written.
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His wife, Kai Cole, gave birth to their son Arden on December 18, 2002.
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Attended and graduated from Wesleyan University in 1987.
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After receiving a degree in film studies from Wesleyan University, Whedon moved to Los Angeles and landed his first writing job on the staff of "Roseanne", working as a story editor and writing several episodes of the top-rated series. He later pulled double duty on the NBC series "Parenthood", co-producing and writing a number of episodes.
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Was asked to revise the script for X-Men (2000) and reportedly decided the whole script needed to be totally rewritten. When he handed the studio this draft, they apparently threw it out; they only really wanted him to add a couple jokes here and there.
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Grandson of John Whedon.
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Wrote the plot to the comic book Serenity, which bridged the gap between the Firefly T.V. series and the film. Fellow Firefly writer Brett Matthews scripted it.
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Has said that he created Buffy (of the vampire slaying fame) to be an "alternative feminist icon".
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Appeared on-screen in the Jossverse for the first-time in the _"Angel" (1999/I)_ episode "Through the Looking Glass" as Numfar of the Deathwok Clan. A relative of the Host, he is routinely ordered by Lorne's mother to dance.
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Created two "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" comic book spin-offs about a vampire slayer named Melaka Fray from 200 years of the future of New York City called "Fray" with artist Karl Moline and various vampire comic book stories "Tales of the Vampires" with Buffy star Amber Benson along with other Buffy tv and comic scribe writers. Currently writing "The Astonishing X-Men" comic book series for Marvel Comics.
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Whedon and Cole can be heard doing a demo track for the wildly popular episode "Once More With Feeling" on the episode soundtrack. It was recorded in the front hall of their home.
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Whedon is married and resides in Los Angeles.
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Lived in the UK for 3 years, from 1980-2, attending Winchester College in Hampshire, where he took his A levels. The character of Rupert Giles is mistakenly thought to be based on a history teacher there, Dr. Peter Cramer. Dr. Cramer's arrival at the College post-dates Whedon's departure. The character was named in tribute to his House Matron: Barbara Giles.
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Joss Whedon's "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (1997) episode "Hush" was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2000 for Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series. "Hush" featured 28 minutes without dialogue, as a group of fairy-tale demons called the Gentlemen arrived in Sunnydale to steal voices, and then hearts (literally).
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Rewrote the script for Speed (1994/I) uncredited.
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His favorite movie is The Matrix (1999).
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Alyson Hannigan and Alexis Denisof are the godparents of his son Arden.
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Took him two years to finish writing Buffy comic book spin-off mini-series "Fray" with artist Karl Moline, due to his schedule with his three shows (Buffy/Angel/ Firefly) and the artist's new job at CrossGen Comics.
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Son of Tom Whedon.
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Wrote Angel's comic book tie-in mini-series with comic book writer Brett Matthews called "Angel: Long Night's Journey." Just as Buffy comic book spin- off FRAY, this comic book mini-series had series of delays because of Joss's committments to Buffy/Angel/Firefly/Fray.
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Wrote an introduction for Jim Krugeer and Alex Ross's Marvel Comics's award- winning graphic novel "Earth X."
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He recently finished production for "Serenity," a movie continuation of the discontinued show, "Firefly."
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The August 21, 1995 draft of the screenplay for Twister (1996) credits Joss Whedon and Jeff Nathanson as writers. Neither writer are credited in the final film.
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Wrote three vignettes for Buffy's "Tale of the Slayers" graphic novel, along with Buffy cast Amber Benson, "Smallville" (2001) consulting producer Jeph Leob, and other Buffy TV and comic writers: In the book, Joss wrote about the origin of The First Slayer, the death of a slayer from the medieval period, and his futuristic slayer Melaka Fray's discovery of an abandoned New York branch of the Watcher Council Headquarter.
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In 2007, started writing the comic-book Runaways after Brian K. Vaughan left it.
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Related to Jed Whedon, video game music composer.
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Considers Mad Max 2 (1981) to be a perfect movie.
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Brother of Zack Whedon, assistant to Mr. David Milch.
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Daughter, Squire, born late 2004/early 2005
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