Quotes by Brian K. Vaughan

About Brian K. Vaughan:

Brian K. Vaughan is an American comic book and television writer, best known for the comic book series Y: The Last Man, Ex Machina, Runaways, Pride of Baghdad, and Saga.
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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 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 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.

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I love doing research. I'm a film-school geek.

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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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I don't think I have discipline when it comes to anything.

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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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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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I'm totally open to it being a movie or a television series or whatever, but truthfully, if no one wants to do it right, I'm also happy for 'Ex Machina' to only ever exist as a comic book.

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When I wrote 'Runaways,' I was a naive kid who thought that all parents were evil. Now that I'm a wise old man with children of my own, I am certain that all parents are evil.

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

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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.

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Print and digital comics will always coexist.

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There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.

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

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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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Fans of my books have just been supremely nice.

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Not many people read my stuff, but I really like the ones that do.

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I never liked working on editorial-driven comics. I just didn't see what was the point. They don't pay well enough for me to write other people's ideas.

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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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Author Bio

  • NameBrian K. Vaughan
  • DescriptionAmerican screenwriter, comic book creator
  • BornMarch 15, 1976
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionScreenwriter; Author