Joss Whedon
Joss Whedon
Joseph Hill "Joss" Whedonis an American screenwriter, film and television director, film and television producer, comic book author, and composer. He is the founder of Mutant Enemy Productions and co-founder of Bellwether Pictures, and is best known as the creator of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, Dollhouseand Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D....
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth23 June 1964
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
I never wanted to take a job because I needed money, and I never have.
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.
I never write anything without humor, just because I like humor, but at the same time, it is a way for anything fantastical to become relatable.
Because you should always do something on a spaceship if you canÃ
I didn't study writing. I didn't write anything substantial until I got to California.
I kept telling my mom that reading comic books would pay off.
I love TV in a way that I don't love any other medium.
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.
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.
I don't like uncertainty. I don't play poker. I don't like bluffing.
I do have screenplays I've written that never saw the light of day, but I don't usually go back to them. When I've told a story, I want to tell another story.
I felt this was a story that had not been told, ... I just needed somebody to believe as strongly as I did, and I found a giant corporation that did, which is the best person of all!
Crazy crisp dialogue. Incredibly tight plotting. Big emotion.
That's the great thing about 'The West Wing:' you really felt like you were in the thick of it.