Joss Whedon Net Worth

Joss Whedon's Quotes

• [in April 2003, 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.
• 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.
• [on "NPR Fresh Air", 11/8/02] It's fascinating to me, the shows that I've always loved the best, Hill Street Blues (1981), Wiseguy (1987), 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.
• [New York Post interview, 5/20/03, about filming the last day of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997)] "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."
• [interview, The Vancouver Sun, 2/3/04] The times are chaotic. For me, I would hope that people look at [Angel (1999)] 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.

Interesting Facts about Joss Whedon

1. Graduated from Wesleyan University in 1987.
2. 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).
3. Son of Tom Whedon.
4. Grandson of John Whedon.
5. 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).
6. 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 (1988), working as a story editor and writing several episodes of the top-rated series. He later pulled double duty on the NBC series Parenthood (1990), co-producing and writing a number of episodes.
7. Appeared on-screen in the Jossverse for the first-time in the Angel (1999) 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.
8. Has said that he created Buffy (of the vampire slaying fame) to be an "alternative feminist icon".
9. 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.
10. Lived in the UK for three 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.
11. 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.
12. His wife, Kai Cole, gave birth to their son Arden on December 18, 2002.
13. Has cited the "X-Men" character Kitty Pryde (AKA Shadowcat) as a major influence for the character of Buffy.
14. Brother of Zack Whedon (assistant to Mr. David Milch) and Jed Whedon.
15. 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.
16. Wrote an introduction for Jim Krugeer and Alex Ross's Marvel Comics's award- winning graphic novel "Earth X."
17. His favorite movie is The Matrix (1999).
18. Considers Mad Max 2 (1981) to be a perfect movie.
19. The August 21, 1995, draft of the screenplay for Twister (1996) credits Joss Whedon and Jeff Nathanson as writers. Neither writer is credited in the final film.
20. Has claimed that his script for Firefly episode "Our Mrs. Reynolds" is his personal favorite thing he has ever written.