Brian K. Vaughan Quotes
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Not many people read my stuff, but I really like the ones that do.
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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.
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'It's about how boys become men - and why it takes women to make that transformation possible.'
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By the time you have your protagonist attempting to assassinate the Pope, you've sort of signaled that everything is on the table.
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All writing is the same: It's just making up lies until it starts to sound like the truth. That's what I do.
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I remember when I was a kid and I would go to the comic-book store, I would have no idea what was going on in that month's issues. Sometimes I wouldn't even know what comics were coming out until I walked into the store.
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I am a big theater fan. It's mostly just being pretentious, I think, and trying to look smart.
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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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Comics are essentially films with fewer frames per second.
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'Writer's block' is just another word for video games. If you want to be a writer, get writing, you lazy bastards.
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The biggest inspiration for everything I do is, of course, my wife, playwright Ruth McKee.
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It's cool because I think 'Ex Machina' is a little bit under the radar, which is always when I do my best work - when I feel like no one's paying attention.
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As much as I'm enjoying stuff out here in Hollywood, I will always think of myself as a comic-book writer who does film and television, not a film and TV writer who occasionally does comics.
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I was only ever part of 'Lost' - a very small part of an extremely talented writers' room, where as a writer, it's sort of your job to sublimate your ego and work in the service of the show and the show's voice.
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Having children changes you forever, as a writer and as a human being. I hope it's for the better on both counts, but I guess we'll see.
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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.
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For a lot of arcane shipping reasons, new comics, even digital ones, have a long history of only being released on Wednesdays.
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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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That was the appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You're only limited by your imagination.
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I love other movies that have been made since, but I think more than any comic book movie, 'Superman' just totally seemed to capture superheroes in ways that others have not.
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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.
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It's TV shows like BUFFY and ANGEL that usually have an incredible cliffhanger every commercial break that amaze me.
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I like animal sidekicks. They seem to be a pretty cool trope of post-apocalyptic fiction - just because if you're going to have this lone protagonist, they're going to need someone to talk to. Dogs are overused, and cats are dumb. So that leaves monkeys.
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I never want readers to be comfortable, to feel like we're in a comedy or a drama. Life is never just one of those things. Life is a balance of all those things.