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.
BRIAN K. VAUGHANEvery issue, the characters and I duke it out. They usually win.
More Brian K. Vaughan Quotes
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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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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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Everyone had a mother, even if she had to leave us on a stranger’s doorstep. No matter how we’re eventually raised, all of our stories begin the exact same way. They all end the same, too.
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A comic script is basically a love letter from you to your artist.
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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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What cruel creatures men are. Our bodies tell us to love so many, but there’s room in our hearts for so few.
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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 don’t start a story until I know where it’s going to end.
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Life is mostly just learning how to lose.
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Pacifists are like vegans, I’m more of a vegetarian. I enjoy fish and occasional maulings.
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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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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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I’m not afraid of the world. I’m afraid of a world without you.
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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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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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