Joss Whedon interviewed by Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo
"We were talking about Work Ethic --
Because Everyone in comparison
to your output, Joss, and your Work Ethic,
would appear to be slack and lazy --
Because, y'know, people work very hard, in Life, and they get their pay --
But you seem to be working, like,
a hundred times harder than anybody else --
J.W. :
"Well, part of that is Smoke and Mirrors, I think,
but part of it is that I do Love The Work,
and also, I DO Have A Problem,
A Serious Mental Problem :
It's Workaholism, and it's not fun,
I Don't Do Anything Else --
Other People Have Lives,
and, They're Nice to Their Friends,
and They do all sorts of things that I forget to do in The Morning
(and that also includes Basic Hygiene, but let's not talk about that....) "
I mean, none of my schoolteachers could've told you, that this was going to happen
(except perhaps my Film Professor) --
It wasn't until I began studying and making Film, and Television, that I discovered that
That was Why I am Here,
and that was really
The Only Reason --
So, The Story is -- correct me if I am wrong --
That you had finished the filming for Avengers,
and you were supposed to have some time off --
like, Time-Off, go away with Your Wife, that kind of thing --
Time Off --
But instead of doing that, in the 2 weeks you actually had, between film and editing, Post-Production and whatever, you actually
made another movie --
Which is 'Much Ado About Nothing'.
Is that actually True...?
Yes --
It was, in fact,
My Wife's idea....
