Quote of the Day

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There's a terrific article about slash interview with Joss Whedon over at GQ (how awesome is that artwork to the left?) and you should go and read the whole thing, it won't take you but a few minutes. I will wait. Okay now that that guy's gone did you see what he's wearing? Good grief, what a douche... oh hey you're back! Great article slash interview wasn't it? No... we weren't talking about you. We were talking about Joss! Isn't he the best? We love him. Ahem. So I had you go and read the article first because the part I want to quote here is the very end part, and as we all know thanks to a wise woman who took nudie pictures that made the pageant officials take her crown away, they always save the best for last. And here they did just that. I love this passage though because it underlines twice and circles something I especially love about Joss and his work.

"Everything I write," he says, "tends to turn into a superhero team, even if I didn't mean for it to. I always start off wanting to be solitary, because a) it's simpler, and b) that isolation is something that I relate to as a storyteller. And then no matter what, I always end up with a team."

He's drawn back to that dynamic, he says, because every character gets a moment where they say I matter to this story.

"That moment," Whedon says, "where you stand up and say, 'I have the right to exist.' I've written it a lot of times, and I never get tired of writing it. And if I could just believe it about myself, I think I could stop writing it."

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