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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.

Brian K. Vaughan

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.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Childhood Friend Kids Real Refresh
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
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.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Adventure Cowboy Play
A comic script is basically a love letter from you to your artist.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Artists Letters Scripts
If a good editor will let me tell my story with the right artist, I’m happy.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Artists Editors Stories
I don’t start a story until I know where it’s going to end.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Book Comic Ends Stories
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. VAUGHAN

Bodies Everything Teenagers Weird
After ten years of toiling away in Hollywood, I realized that there’s no better place for new ideas than comics.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Hollywood Ideas Years
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

Artist Giving Writing
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.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Adventure Boys Female Two
Victor: You guys have some kind of rallying cry? You know, “Avengers assemble?” “It’s clobberin’ time?” “Hulk smash?” Nico: “Try not to die.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Cry Guy Rallying Trying
What cruel creatures men are. Our bodies tell us to love so many, but there’s room in our hearts for so few.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Body Heart Men
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.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Better Feel Good Mom Relationship
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.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Hands Thinking Writing
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. VAUGHAN

Drama Teenager Writing
Adaptations are great, but for me, comics have always been the destination, not a stepping-stone to get somewhere else.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Adaptation Comics Destination Great Stepping

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