These are the young women [in Stand by Me] that we grew up knowing and hopefully they feel a little rough around the edges, because it’s true to life.
BRIAN K. VAUGHANNo. 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.
More Brian K. Vaughan Quotes
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Every issue, the characters and I duke it out. They usually win.
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Life is mostly just learning how to lose.
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If a good editor will let me tell my story with the right artist, I’m happy.
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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’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.
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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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I’ve always thought of fantasy as a genre of best-case scenarios, and horror as a genre of worst-case scenarios.
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Adaptations are great, but for me, comics have always been the destination, not a stepping-stone to get somewhere else.
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Yeah, that’s right. Flee in terror, bitches!
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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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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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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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Fans of my books have just been supremely nice.
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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’m not afraid of the world. I’m afraid of a world without you.
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