That was the appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You’re only limited by your imagination.
BRIAN K. VAUGHANFans of my books have just been supremely nice.
More Brian K. Vaughan Quotes
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I’m still digesting the ’90s. It takes some time to get perspective.
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Adaptations are great, but for me, comics have always been the destination, not a stepping-stone to get somewhere else.
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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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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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If a good editor will let me tell my story with the right artist, I’m happy.
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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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Immigration confuses and terrifies me, so why not try to write a comic and make some sense of it?
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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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The appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You’re only limited by your imagination.
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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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Doesn’t matter if it’s personal or professional, a good partnership takes work.
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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.
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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 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.
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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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