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.
BRIAN K. VAUGHANNot a word of my writing has ever been changed by another person’s hands, and I don’t think many screenwriters can say that.
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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Some people are haunted by their pasts, but not my family. I mean, how can you be haunted by something that never really dies?
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Doesn’t matter if it’s personal or professional, a good partnership takes work.
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There’s just something about that late ’80s that suddenly feels like it has something to teach us.
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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 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 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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I like things that are weirdly imaginative and couldn’t be real, but I also like stories that are recognizable and relatable.
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We’ve all seen lots of stories about a young protagonist having adventures, and usually they’re all boys, [and] there is sometimes a token female, or two.
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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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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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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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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 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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I don’t start a story until I know where it’s going to end.
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