Joss Whedon Quotes

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

In acting, you can't do things for the money. You've got to do a project because you like it.

Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I'm borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.

I get very driven by certain themes and ideas.

It is difficult to be creative and enthusiastic about anything for which we do not feel affection.

I get ideas about things I want to make and then I throw myself into it with everything I have.

I'm motivated. The spirit hits me and I just keep going and don't stop. The more I play, the more I can invent, the more ideas come to me.

Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft.

One can steal ideas, but no one can steal execution or passion.

All you need is passion. If you have a passion for something, you'll create the talent.

Inspiration is being motivated by a person or idea. Motivation is being inspired by an object. When people are inspired, they don't need motivation.

I don't need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.

Money doesn't excite me - my ideas excite me.

It always amazes me when I see young people with raw talent and passion.

Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

When I look for the next project, it's always about, 'Is it going to push me out of my comfort zone? Am I doing something different? Am I working with people who are passionate about what they're doing?' At the end of the day, if I'm going to be bored on set, then I'm not gonna be happy.

I don't think you can measure your love or your passion for whatever you're working on.

I love the passion you go through while you're creating.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

I look for stuff that I'm passionate about.

You can't teach passion. You can teach everything else.

I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.

You want to be excited about what you're doing. So whenever I get tired, I think, 'Would ten-year-old Adam be pretty stoked on what I'm doing and what's happening?' So I just live my life as if I'm using my ten-year-old brain.

I'm always being inspired .

Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make.