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. VAUGHANI 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.
More Brian K. Vaughan Quotes
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I don’t start a story until I know where it’s going to end.
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We describe [Paper Girls] as Stand By Me meets Terminator.It’s a story about nostalgia and childhood, but with an action-packed, sci-fi bent.
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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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I mean, do you know what you get when you call a suicide hotline in New York city? A busy signal. Literally.
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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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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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Every issue, the characters and I duke it out. They usually win.
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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 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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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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The appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You’re only limited by your imagination.
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Doesn’t matter if it’s personal or professional, a good partnership takes work.
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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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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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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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