Brian K. Vaughan Quotes
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It's just people who grew up in that time are suddenly old enough to be creators themselves, but I think they have a little perspective. I'm 40 now, and I have children of my own. Before I forget my own childhood completely, I want to take some time to take a look at the '80s and think back.
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I've written about teenage heroes before, on Marvel's Runaways, and I remember at the time when I pitched it, it was a team that had more female members than males. Even that caused of much discussion about, "Will there be a market for this, and should there at least be equal number of male and females?"
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My parents grew up during the space race, and I think they imagined the future would be us living on moon bases and everyone has rocket shoes.
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That was the appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You're only limited by your imagination.
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I don't start a story until I know where it's going to end.
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I'm the one who started spreading that particular factoid, about Bendis, Azz and me all being bald Brian's from Cleveland, just to get my name mentioned in the same sentence as two much-better writers, and it's worked like a goddamn charm. Next up, I'm going to grow a big, disgusting beard, just so people will start talking about Alan Moore and me in the same breath.
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The longer I've been writing scripts, the more I find that you have to give the artist more leeway or else you'll just be disappointed. You can't force them to draw every image that's in your head. Since I'm a horrific artist, I wouldn't want them to anyway. So I definitely give them a lot more leeway now than I did at the beginning.
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There are a lot of differing opinions on that. Some people think you should change out more, but I think changing just 20 percent is less stressful on the aquarium and fish. Once you get used to the regimen, it's pretty easy.
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We're not trying to be deliberately frustrating, but we are laying the tracks for a mystery, and it's one that we have all figured out. We wanted this to be kind of like the way that Cliff [Chang] and I felt about the Cold War in the '80s when we were 12.
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I realized that for fantasy and science fiction, especially from my youth, white was the default. Luke Skywalker was in the lead, or even if you were a hobbit, you're going to be white. That was an extremely old-fashioned, obviously really narrow-minded way to look at things.
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Doesn't matter if it's personal or professional, a good partnership takes work.
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Each collected edition of Paper Girls that we put out will largely be set in an entirely different era.
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I mean, do you know what you get when you call a suicide hotline in New York city? A busy signal. Literally.
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Happy endings are bullshit. There are only happy pauses.
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Comics brought me to the dance. It'll always be my first loyalty.
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The biggest inspiration for everything I do is, of course, my wife, playwright Ruth McKee.
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Immigration confuses and terrifies me, so why not try to write a comic and make some sense of it?
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Just go out there and get your heart broken in, so it'll be ready when you really need it.
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Print and digital comics will always coexist.
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I, for example, am a pompous asshole, but my comics are genius!
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When a man carries an instrument of violence, he'll always find the justification to use it.
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We're always looking roughly 30 years behind us. In the '80s they were obsessed with the '50s and so on.
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There's a lot of fiction from that period that we're nostalgic for.
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I'm not afraid of the world. I'm afraid of a world without you.
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I genuinely am sort of an emotionally stunted man-child, so if I just write to the top of my intelligence, it sounds like a teenager. I like being around teenagers. It's good for drama; they feel everything much more intensely than adults do, their lives are much more interesting than ours. They're mutants. They have these weird bodies that are rebelling against them and changing every day. Teenagers always equal good drama.
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To try and imagine that I'm another person is always going to be hard - whether I'm writing about a truck driver or someone who is gay, who's trans, who is of a different ethnicity or creed. But it would be boring if I always had to write about myself and my limited viewpoint.
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For a lot of arcane shipping reasons, new comics, even digital ones, have a long history of only being released on Wednesdays.
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I've never gotten anything but support and thanks from people for having diverse books.
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Okay, is anyone else worried that some of the fruit didn't fall far enough away from the tree?
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Because it's in and about New York City, I knew 'Ex Machina' was going to have to continually mix the mundane and the fantastic.
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