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| Joss' Words of Wisdom . . . Remember, always be yourself. Unless you suck. ********** I also don't trust Caribou anymore. They're out there, on the tundra, waiting . . . Something's going down. I'm right about this. ********** When you're writing, it's just you and the characters, and it's a great place to be. -from the US Buffy Season 1 DVD set ********** I don't think you ever get over high school. -from the US Buffy Season 1 DVD set ********** Sarah did almost behead the cameraman with the cymbol, but, uh, she didn't mean to. -on "The Harvest", US Buffy Season 1 DVD set ********** The only thing you can expect from any of the relationships on the show is trouble. -from Cinescape magazine ********** It's really about growing up . . . how hard it is to make it through life without cashing in your chips or becoming a complete, insufferable shmoe. -explaining Buffy at Buffy.com ********** I do, however, hope that, in the future, maybe after the running of the show, the entire series will be released on DVD. Then I can do a biting, witty and possibly drunken commentary over the whole thing. ********** Yes, I've figured it out. I've become the hack that I always dreamt of being. ********** It's just going to get worse. We have a lot of humor in store, and a lot of goofy, crazy stuff, but are we bringing on the pain? We're bringing on the pain. We love pain. -on Buffy Season 6 ********** The vampires explode into dust because it's practically useful. For one thing, it shows they're monsters; I didn't want a high school girl killing people every week. Another reason, you don't have to clean up bodies for twenty minutes at the end of every show. And ... it also looks really cool. -from the US Buffy Season 1 DVD set ********** . . . It's something that I thought up about three years ago and had on the boiler because I didn't want to jump in for a while - not until I had three shows running. Then I thought now's the time. -on his new show Firefly from Scifi.com ********** So why not just take the opportunity? And then you realize that you have to do all things, and then you're going to die. But you don't think about that. You get excited. You get a spaceship - I'm just going to be more organized this year. I swear. -on his new show Firefly from Scifi.com ********** A lot of people are asking me 'What exactly is Firefly?' It's a TV show, you morons! -on his new show Firefly from the official Firefly website ********** It's using a nice, compelling setting and a journey - hopefully a very long journey - to learn about people and see their interactions and see what makes them tick and learn about society and life and what it all means. But with action. And a whore. -on his new show Firefly from the official Firefly website ********** This is my first non-latex show. No bumby foreheads, no living long, no prospering. -on his new show Firefly from the official Firefly website ********** Q: Why did [Jenny Calendar] have to die? Because somebody had to die. We had to prove that Angel really was the badass we were saying he was. So we had to take away someone we loved -- and we loved her. -from an Entertainment Weekly interview ********** My Humbility outstrips everybody else's, I'm like Ghandi. -from interview on Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Chaos Bleeds PS2 game ********** The most surprising aspect of Buffy is how tired I am, tired all the time, and that I hate people as a rule. -from interview on Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Chaos Bleeds PS2 game ********** I think what works is that Buffy is the type of person who solves her problems with violence, and that's the type of message I want to get out ot the kids. -from interview on Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Chaos Bleeds PS2 game ********** It's turned me into a meglomaniac, the show, and the game's only going to make it worse. -from interview on Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Chaos Bleeds PS2 game ********** I'm very much of the 'make it dark, make it grim, make it tough', but then, for the love of God, tell a joke. -from interview on Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Chaos Bleeds PS2 game ********** They have a shiny blond thing to show people, and they're gonna do it. -from a TV Guide Interview on Spike joining the Angel cast ********** Her internal search isn't for a boyfriend, it's for herself. And then if true love fits into that, that would be the best thing ever. But if she instantly went off and attached herself to Angel, she'd be throwing away everything she'd just been given, which is her freedom. It would be the last thing she would do. Well, not the last thing. She wouldn't do it until sweeps. -from a TV Guide interview ********** Everybody works more when they're dead. -from US Buffy Season 7 DVD set ********** Spike is the first great engenue we ever found for Angel. Their chemistry is just a delight. -from US Angel Season 5 DVD set ********** The cool thing about the ep is how earth-shattering events are riding on this very immature relationship. -from US Angel Season 5 DVD set ********** I had the perfect couple, and it was Spike and Angel. -from US Angel Season 5 DVD set ********** One of the things I thought was really rewarding aobut the show was that it didn't paint the universe as a simpler place than it is just to accomodate a hero. -from US Angel Season 5 DVD set ********** Whatever doesn't happen in real life is what I'm interested in using to comment on real life. -from US Angel Season 5 DVD set ********** I would be the sexy man. People would wonder, "How did he get so sexy?" -on what character he would be in Firefly ********** Jeff Bell has done an extraordinary job, so that when I see a cut I'm always like, "This show's great! Who makes this?" -about his involvement in Angel ********** The decision came about largely because I was like, "I can't do this anymore! I'm so sleepy!" -on why Buffy came to an end ********** We had a great animation director, great visuals, six or seven hilarious scripts from our own staff -- and nobody wanted it. I was completely baffled. I felt like I was sitting there with bags of money and nobody would take them from me. -on the failed Buffy animated series ********** I had dinner with the writers the other night, and we listed the title of every single show, which was hard. Just the weight of the thing, the bulk of the thing -- every single one of those episodes had a message and a meaning and a very specific purpose. It wasn't always completely realized; it wasn't always as tight as it could have been. But the fact that 144 times we sat down and broke our backs to make a story worth telling is something that makes me feel enormously proud. ********** People always (say), "'Buffy' is great except for Year 6." I believe that as time passes, people will look at Year 6 as part of the whole and realize how important it was. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ A Few Words from the Casts . . . It is a decision that springs from an artist's impulse, not just wanting to put some booty on screen. -James Marsters on his increased nudity in Buffy season 6 ********** I've known these guys for five years, man, and they're just staring at my sock. -James Marsters on doing nude scenes ********** I've got a thing for you and you're just hanging out with me because you can't talk to your friends about your problems but you don't really care about me so get the hell out of my crypt. -James Marsters explaining his song in "Once More with Feeling" on Buffy.com ********** We were in London on the dance floor, and Joss Whedon actually stopped dancing, going, 'I'm in the middle of your song - I'm on fire, I can't get it out!' Just today he was like, 'The last stanza needs more balls.' He wants it to be really rock and roll. -James Marsters on his song in "Once More with Feeling" on TVGuide.com ********** The fact that Spike is truly in love can motivate him to great acts of heroism as he tries to become the kind of man that Buffy could love, or, if spurned, it could drive to him to great acts of villainy. -James Marsters on Spike's love for Buffy at TVGuide.com ********** I don't know that Spike's becoming good, it's more that he's becoming what his girl wants. With Drusilla, she wanted a monster, she got a monster. With Buffy, she wants someone with honor. And he's not going to get anyone without a set of honor. Right now, y'know, he just wants in. -James Marsters at GenCon ********** I've always known that to really be in the center of things in the show, you have to be either kissing Buffy or hitting Buffy. -James Marsters in an Alloy interview ********** But for right now, I need to go audition for some human beings. Right now, all I get called back for are vampires, rock stars, and drug adicts. -James Marsters about shaving his head on "On Air with Ryan Seacreast" ********** Well, he was chasing me with a knife. I think anyone chasing me with a knife, I'm gonna whack on the nose. -Nicholas Brendon on hitting the clown in "Nightmare" from the official Buffy magazine ********** Even putting a clean toilet into a new house is dirty, because you know what's about to happen to that little porcelain pot. -Nicholas Brendon on his past job as a plumber from the official Buffy magazine ********** I'll still be crossing over with Alyson. -Alexis Denisof on no more Angel/Buffy crossovers from TVGuide.com ********** Yes, this year, Wesley's going to turn into a really big stud. -Alexis Denisof on Angel Season Three from TVGuide.com ********** All of a sudden, I feel like Leonardo DiCaprio. -Anthony Stewart Head on fan reactions at the 3rd Posting Board Party from the official Buffy magazine ********** I have to admit, I have a big foot fetish. -David Boreanaz from Seventeen magazine ********** Jane Espenson just threw her arms up; she was like 'Aargh! You're not even a real geek! You just play one! Padawan?! Come on!' And she walked away. -Danny Strong, aka Jonathan, on only playing a geek on TV from the official Buffy magazine ********** What sucks is that I've been trying to cast spells. I got all these Wicca books, and I'm just going nuts, and it's not working out for me. -Danny Strong, aka Jonathan, from the official Buffy magazine ********** They're into world domination. I guess since they've succeeded at it with Buffy and Angel, they think they can apply it to everything. Adam Busch, aka Warren, on Buffy fans from the official Buffy magazine ********** I finally found out myself what Joss is planning... and I'm sure as hell not gonna tell you guys... but I will tell you guys that the end of this season is going to be... very romantic... very heartbreaking... and you guys are probably going to hate it. James Marsters at Creation's Sci-fi Media Convention in Sacramento about Season 7 ********** I get more acting jollies from the show than I did from any full season of theater. The writing is not safe. That's the best thing about it. It can be horrifying, but in the most exhilarating way. James Marsters, NYTimes.com article ********** I miss the interaction between the actors and the audience. I miss soliloquies, where you can turn boldly to the audience and speak to them. I love talking to one person at a time, if only for maybe three seconds, but specifically looking in people's eyes and watching them jump. Oh, it's wonderful! And dangerous. James Marsters, NYTimes.com article ********** I want to be strong and a vampire slayer. Amy Acker ********** I love playing power. Not that I have any power issues. I like power, no problem! -Stephanie Romano, the Angel season 4 DVD set ********** 'Lo and behold, a couple of weeks with the old Connor-man, and the vampire dust kinda goes into the eyes, and you never know what will happen, and uh, we were making whoopie, man, me and Cordelia Chase. -Vincent Kartheiser, the US Angel season 4 DVD set ********** Nathan: There's nothing like a major motion picture to make you feel a little bit better about having your TV show canceled. Adam: Redemption! HA HA HA! -Nathan Fillion and Adam Baldwin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ A Few Words from the Crew . . . Joss knows all, sees all, and does a mean happy dance. -Steven DeKnight on, well, Joss ********** Joss is very busy, and he loves it. He's like a pig in poo. -Marti Noxon from Fireflyfans.net ********** Angel is going to lose everything that means anything to him, and then he's going to get it all back better than he ever imagined. And then even worse things are going to happen to him. -David Greenwalt on Angel Season 3 from the official Buffy magazine ********** "My contract was up. I like being taken roughly from behind as much as the next man, but Fox is not stepping up to the plate." -David Greenwalt on why he's leaving Angel ********** I guess Joss felt the show wasn't gay enough yet. -David Greenwalt about "Waiting in the Wings," the ballet episode of Angel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ And a Word or Two from Some Others. ... A show whose mythology, by now, in the midst of the sixth season, is so rich and deliciously Byzantine that you could almost design a college course around it. -Stephanie Zacharek, from a Salon.com review ********** We named him Captain Non Sequitur for all the oddball comments he�d make. -Valentine Director Jamie Blanks about David Boreanaz ********** As was presented in a highlight clip on the Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Chaos Bleeds PS2 game Nicholas Brendon interview: "I'm still getting acclimated to my joystick." James Marsters recording Spike's voice: "Right. Look, can we just put the soddin' flesh puzzle together and be done with it." back to main |
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| This page is made up of quotes from Joss Whedon, the cast and crew of Buffy and Angel, and others. I don't know where I got some of the quotes from, but I named the source of those I do remember. |