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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I am a big theater fan. It's mostly just being pretentious, I think, and trying to look smart.
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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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I guess my journey with comics began with stuff like Spider-Man and Batman. I started off with mainstream superhero stuff, which I've never abandoned.
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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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The biggest inspiration for everything I do is, of course, my wife, playwright Ruth McKee.
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Comics are essentially films with fewer frames per second.
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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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If a good editor will let me tell my story with the right artist, I'm happy.
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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 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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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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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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'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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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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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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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 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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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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I was embarrassingly well-versed in Marvel lore, so it was pretty easy to slip into that world. But really, already, by the time I'd started writing superhero comics, my dream was really to be writing my own characters.
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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.
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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.