I don’t start a story until I know where it’s going to end.
BRIAN K. VAUGHANNext 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.
More Brian K. Vaughan Quotes
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We describe [Paper Girls] as Stand By Me meets Terminator.It’s a story about nostalgia and childhood, but with an action-packed, sci-fi bent.
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Pacifists are like vegans, I’m more of a vegetarian. I enjoy fish and occasional maulings.
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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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I think there is a possible future where maybe we do just take a hard turn away from the Internet and we do start valuing our privacy again.
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Doesn’t matter if it’s personal or professional, a good partnership takes work.
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A comic script is basically a love letter from you to your artist.
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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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I 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.
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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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My mom once told me that a good relationship isn’t where the other person makes you feel better, but where they make *you* better.
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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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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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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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Life is mostly just learning how to lose.
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I remember seeing Stand by Me, when I was around 12, and just feeling like, “This is so refreshing to see kids swear and smoke cigarettes like my friends.” It just felt much more real than the Sesame Street version of childhood that I’d been spoon-fed.
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