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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.

Brian K. Vaughan

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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Adventure Cowboy Play
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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Boys Girl Happen Kids Suddenly
Adaptations are great, but for me, comics have always been the destination, not a stepping-stone to get somewhere else.
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Adaptation Comics Destination Great Stepping
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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Hollywood Ideas Years
I’m still digesting the ’90s. It takes some time to get perspective.
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Perspective Stills
Immigration confuses and terrifies me, so why not try to write a comic and make some sense of it?
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Immigration Trying Writing
After 9/11, I knew I wanted to write about power and identity and the way Americans on all sides of the political spectrum often mythologize our leaders, which are themes that the superhero genre has always handled really well.
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Leader Superhero Writing
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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Fiction Stars Stories War
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.
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Knowing Life Stand True
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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History Interesting Itself Repeats Trying
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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Budgets Comic Imagination
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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Ethnicity Gay Writing
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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Childhood Friend Kids Real Refresh
Victor: You guys have some kind of rallying cry? You know, “Avengers assemble?” “It’s clobberin’ time?” “Hulk smash?” Nico: “Try not to die.
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Cry Guy Rallying Trying
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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Book Girl Paper
If a good editor will let me tell my story with the right artist, I’m happy.
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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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