I’m still digesting the ’90s. It takes some time to get perspective.
BRIAN K. VAUGHANImmigration confuses and terrifies me, so why not try to write a comic and make some sense of it?
More Brian K. Vaughan Quotes
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Yeah, that’s right. Flee in terror, bitches!
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I don’t start a story until I know where it’s going to end.
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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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Doesn’t matter if it’s personal or professional, a good partnership takes work.
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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’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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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 know I’m a grumpy old man, but I’m always more delighted by readers talking about the actual comics than people talking about how eager they are to have their favorite comics be “elevated” into another medium.
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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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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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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 think some people are just very passionate that things remain the way they were when they were kids.
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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 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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Life is mostly just learning how to lose.
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