Brian K. Vaughan famous quotes

Every issue, the characters and I duke it out. They usually win.
-- Brian K. Vaughan

#Character #Winning #Issues

After ten years of toiling away in Hollywood, I realized that there's no better place for new ideas than comics.
-- Brian K. Vaughan

#Years #Ideas #Hollywood

I grew up with a sister I was very close with and a mom who was a powerful influence on my life. I was always close with women.
-- Brian K. Vaughan

#Mom #Powerful #Influence

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.
-- Brian K. Vaughan

#Thinking #Privacy #Internet

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

#Heart #Men #Body

For a lot of arcane shipping reasons, new comics, even digital ones, have a long history of only being released on Wednesdays.
-- Brian K. Vaughan

#Long #Digital #Shipping

In film, you have the luxury of accomplishing what you need in 24 frames every second. Comics, you only have five or six panels a page to do that.
-- Brian K. Vaughan

#Luxury #Six #Needs

All writing is the same: It's just making up lies until it starts to sound like the truth. That's what I do.
-- Brian K. Vaughan

#Lying #Writing #Sound

Comics brought me to the dance. It'll always be my first loyalty.
-- Brian K. Vaughan

#Loyalty #Firsts

Because it's in and about New York City, I knew 'Ex Machina' was going to have to continually mix the mundane and the fantastic.
-- Brian K. Vaughan

#New York #Cities #Fantastic

Print and digital comics will always coexist.
-- Brian K. Vaughan

#Digital #Print #Coexist

I am a big theater fan. It's mostly just being pretentious, I think, and trying to look smart.
-- Brian K. Vaughan

#Smart #Thinking #Trying

I start with something that makes me angry or confused, and then I write about it. It's a form of self-help.
-- Brian K. Vaughan

#Confused #Writing #Self

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.
-- Brian K. Vaughan

#Writing #Leader #Political

Doesn't matter if it's personal or professional, a good partnership takes work.
-- Brian K. Vaughan

#Matter #Partnership

I mean, do you know what you get when you call a suicide hotline in New York city? A busy signal. Literally.
-- Brian K. Vaughan

#Suicide #New York #Mean

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

#Mom #Feel Better #Good Relationship

Just go out there and get your heart broken in, so it'll be ready when you really need it.
-- Brian K. Vaughan

#Heart #Broken #Needs

I'm not afraid of the world. I'm afraid of a world without you.
-- Brian K. Vaughan

#Love #World #Without You

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

#Guy #Trying #Kind

Okay, is anyone else worried that some of the fruit didn't fall far enough away from the tree?
-- Brian K. Vaughan

#Fall #Tree #Fruit

Gert: Wake me when the fight scene's over. Kitty Pryde: Oy, tell me about it. Hey, I'm Kitty. You the token pacifist of your group? Gert: Not exactly. Pacifists are like vegans, I'm more of a vegetarian. I enjoy fish and occasional maulings.
-- Brian K. Vaughan

#Fighting #Groups #Hey

Sure, this will probably end up being another in a long line of emotionally crippling misadventures...but let's try to have some fun along the way.
-- Brian K. Vaughan

#Fun #Long #Trying

Happy endings are bullshit. There are only happy pauses.
-- Brian K. Vaughan

#Bullshit #Happy Endings

If a good editor will let me tell my story with the right artist, I'm happy.
-- Brian K. Vaughan

#Artist #Editors #Stories

I've always thought of fantasy as a genre of best-case scenarios, and horror as a genre of worst-case scenarios.
-- Brian K. Vaughan

#Fantasy #Horror #Genre

I just make crap up more than anything else.
-- Brian K. Vaughan

#Crap

It's TV shows like BUFFY and ANGEL that usually have an incredible cliffhanger every commercial break that amaze me.
-- Brian K. Vaughan

#Angel #Tv Shows #Tvs

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

#Writing #Thinking #Hands

Comics are essentially films with fewer frames per second.
-- Brian K. Vaughan

#Film

I, for example, am a pompous asshole, but my comics are genius!
-- Brian K. Vaughan

#Example #Genius #Pompous

How is it possible that our parents lied to us?" "Lets see: Santa, the Tooth Fairy,the Easter bunny,um, God. You're the prettiest kid in school. This wont hurt a bit. Your face will freeze like that..." "Everythings going to be alright.
-- Brian K. Vaughan

#Hurt #Easter #Kids

I'm the one who started spreading that particular factoid, about Bendis, Azz and me all being bald Brian's from Cleveland, just to get my name mentioned in the same sentence as two much-better writers, and it's worked like a ***** charm. 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.
-- Brian K. Vaughan

#Talking #Names #Two

Fans of my books have just been supremely nice.
-- Brian K. Vaughan

#Nice #Book #Fans

When I was in college, I was belittling the woman who later become my wife for not knowing who Boba Fett was, and she responded by asking me if I knew who the Prime Minister of Israel was. Surprisingly? Not Mon Mothma.
-- Brian K. Vaughan

#College #Israel #Knowing

Your own creations are your own children; you gave life to them, so you'll always have, if not more passion to them, more connections to them.
-- Brian K. Vaughan

#Children #Passion #Connections

Life is mostly just learning how to lose.
-- Brian K. Vaughan

#Life Is

But nothing warps time quite like childhood
-- Brian K. Vaughan

#Childhood #Warp

They hurt you. You hurt 'em back. Or maybe it is the other way around. Whatever. Someday you might find a way to forgive each other. But it won't be like it used to 'cause that pain never really goes away.
-- Brian K. Vaughan

#Hurt #Pain #Forgiving

Yeah, that's right. Flee in terror, bitches!
-- Brian K. Vaughan

#Yeah #Terror

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

Once upon a time, each of us was somebody's kid. Everyone had a father, even if he never provided anything more than his seed. 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.
-- Brian K. Vaughan

#Mother #Father #Kids

The biggest inspiration for everything I do is, of course, my wife, playwright Ruth McKee.
-- Brian K. Vaughan

#Inspiration #Wife #Ruth

My parents grew up during the space race, and I think they imagined the future would be us living on moon bases and everyone has rocket shoes.
-- Brian K. Vaughan

#Moon #Thinking #Race

Fantasy/science-fiction stories have been around almost as long as each genre, but every hybrid now lives in the shadow of 'Star Wars.'
-- Brian K. Vaughan

#Stars #War #Long

Violence is stupid. Even as a last resort, it only ever begets more of the same.
-- Brian K. Vaughan

#Stupid #Lasts #Violence

I sort of jumped out of movies and into the lifeboat of comics. I loved it right away. It was the opposite of film school. Whatever was in my imagination could end up in the finished product. There were just no limitations.
-- Brian K. Vaughan

#School #Opposites #Imagination

That was the appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You're only limited by your imagination.
-- Brian K. Vaughan

#Imagination

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.
-- Brian K. Vaughan

#Jobs #Book #Writing

Some people are haunted by their pasts, but not my family. I mean, how can you be haunted by something that never really dies?
-- Brian K. Vaughan

#Mean #Past #People

There are only three forms of high art: the symphony, the illustrated children's book and the board game.
-- Brian K. Vaughan

#Art #Children #Book

I don't start a story until I know where it's going to end.
-- Brian K. Vaughan

#Stories #Ends

I'm really happiest living life 22 pages at a time and putting things in little boxes on pages.
-- Brian K. Vaughan

#Live Life #Littles #Pages

I have no imagination; I just steal from life and change the color. Then it's a comic book.
-- Brian K. Vaughan

#Book #Color #Imagination

A comic script is basically a love letter from you to your artist,
-- Brian K. Vaughan

#Artist #Letters #Scripts

When a man carries an instrument of violence, he'll always find the justification to use it.
-- Brian K. Vaughan

#Men #Use #Violence

There are a lot of differing opinions on that. Some people think you should change out more, but I think changing just 20 percent is less stressful on the aquarium and fish. Once you get used to the regimen, it's pretty easy.
-- Brian K. Vaughan

#Thinking #Aquariums #People

Reef aquariums are definitely the pinnacle of the hobby.
-- Brian K. Vaughan

#Aquariums #Hobbies #Pinnacle

Brubaker and Phillipss books have always been about eight years ahead of their time.
-- Brian K. Vaughan

#Book #Eight #Years