I don’t start a story until I know where it’s going to end.
BRIAN K. VAUGHANI grew up in the suburbs of Cleveland in 1988 and there was just one year where suddenly all of the delivery kids that used to be boys were suddenly girls. It happened at our church too. Altar boys were suddenly altar girls.
More Brian K. Vaughan Quotes
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It was interesting looking back at the ’80s and trying to find newspaper headlines from the time – the cliché of history repeating itself.
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After ten years of toiling away in Hollywood, I realized that there’s no better place for new ideas than comics.
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I write the book for one person – for Fiona [Staples, the artist]. I spend a lot of time just thinking how she’ll react to things and manipulating her into drawing perverse, horrific things. It’s a really weird job but I enjoy it.
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I’m not afraid of the world. I’m afraid of a world without you.
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How is it possible that our parents lied to us?” “Lets see: Santa, the Tooth Fairy,the Easter bunny,um, God. You’re the prettiest kid in school. This wont hurt a bit. Your face will freeze like that…” “Everythings going to be alright.
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Every issue, the characters and I duke it out. They usually win.
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No. No, first comes boyhood. You get to play with soldiers and spacemen, cowboys and ninjas, pirates and robots. But before you know it, all that comes to an end. And then, Remo Williams, is when the adventure begins.
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Fantasy/science-fiction stories have been around almost as long as each genre, but every hybrid now lives in the shadow of ‘Star Wars.’
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Not a word of my writing has ever been changed by another person’s hands, and I don’t think many screenwriters can say that.
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Everyone had a mother, even if she had to leave us on a stranger’s doorstep. No matter how we’re eventually raised, all of our stories begin the exact same way. They all end the same, too.
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Yeah, that’s right. Flee in terror, bitches!
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I think some people are just very passionate that things remain the way they were when they were kids.
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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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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.
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I love that the book [Paper Girls ] gets to kind of evolve and change in each era. Our third storyline is our best so far.
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