Words matter. These are the best Brian K. Vaughan Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I’ve always seen ‘Y’ as an unconventional romance between a boy and his protector. It was always about the last boy on Earth becoming the last man on Earth, and the women who made that possible.
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.
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.
I love doing research. I’m a film-school geek.
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.
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.
By the time you have your protagonist attempting to assassinate the Pope, you’ve sort of signaled that everything is on the table.
I am a big theater fan. It’s mostly just being pretentious, I think, and trying to look smart.
All writing is the same: It’s just making up lies until it starts to sound like the truth. That’s what I do.
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.
Print and digital comics will always coexist.
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.
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.
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.
There’s always that relief you feel when you’re working on your own series that you can actually make it to your planned ending and that your audience will still be there to support you – and that your publisher will still exist.
For a lot of arcane shipping reasons, new comics, even digital ones, have a long history of only being released on Wednesdays.
Fantasy/science-fiction stories have been around almost as long as each genre, but every hybrid now lives in the shadow of ‘Star Wars.’
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.
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.
The biggest inspiration for everything I do is, of course, my wife, playwright Ruth McKee.
That was the appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You’re only limited by your imagination.
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.
