I think some people are just very passionate that things remain the way they were when they were kids.
BRIAN K. VAUGHANThere’s just something about that late ’80s that suddenly feels like it has something to teach us.
More Brian K. Vaughan Quotes
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Next up, I’m going to grow a big, disgusting beard, just so people will start talking about Alan Moore and me in the same breath.
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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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Immigration confuses and terrifies me, so why not try to write a comic and make some sense of it?
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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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I don’t start a story until I know where it’s going to end.
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It was interesting looking back at the ’80s and trying to find newspaper headlines from the time – the cliché of history repeating itself.
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Doesn’t matter if it’s personal or professional, a good partnership takes work.
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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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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 grew up in the suburbs of Cleveland in 1988 and there was just one year where suddenly all of the delivery kids that used to be boys were suddenly girls. It happened at our church too. Altar boys were suddenly altar girls.
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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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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.
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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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Some people are haunted by their pasts, but not my family. I mean, how can you be haunted by something that never really dies?
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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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