Brian K. Vaughan Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Brian K. Vaughan
Brian K. Vaughan Famous Quotes & Sayings
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From my very first day, I was pursued by men.
All of them tried to hurt me, but only one managed to break my heart.
All of them tried to hurt me, but only one managed to break my heart.
But you have gift!"
"Gift? I was electrocuted and disfigured, and now I think my fucking television is talking to me. That's called schizophrenia.
"Gift? I was electrocuted and disfigured, and now I think my fucking television is talking to me. That's called schizophrenia.
So what? He's good to you and Hazel now, isn't he? Who cares if he's got history with some other broad?
Well, I've always wanted to call my son Barr."
"Like a tavern? Like a soap?"
"My father's name is Barr."
"Oh. And I love it!
"Like a tavern? Like a soap?"
"My father's name is Barr."
"Oh. And I love it!
I've always thought of fantasy as a genre of best-case scenarios, and horror as a genre of worst-case scenarios.
After ten years of toiling away in Hollywood, I realized that there's no better place for new ideas than comics.
I start with something that makes me angry or confused, and then I write about it. It's a form of self-help.
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.
Fantasy/science-fiction stories have been around almost as long as each genre, but every hybrid now lives in the shadow of 'Star Wars.'
Dying is one of the few experiences we'll eventually all enjoy firsthand, and like most shit that's commonplace, it's boring to dwell on.
There are two kinds of people left in the world, consumers and destroyers. We used to have creators, but they all ran away.
Younger writers are always looking for "blurbs," one of the few words that sounds exactly as awful as the crime it's describing.
After years of pitched battles, my father was ready for a significantly less stressful career. Unfortunately, he decided to try raising a girl.
For a lot of arcane shipping reasons, new comics, even digital ones, have a long history of only being released on Wednesdays.
I mean, do you know what you get when you call a suicide hotline in New York city? A busy signal. Literally.
There are only three forms of high art: the symphony, the illustrated children's book and the board game.
How's a skeleton crew supposed to save Chase from the giants who annihilated our parents?"
"I believe your people call it "girl power.
"I believe your people call it "girl power.
A lot of people who came into my family's life looking like heroes ended up acting more like villains.
I never like to talk about my own politics, but whether you're left, right or center, the 2008 race was definitely good drama.
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.
Well, you know what they say, the reader is the final contributor. Cheers for doing the heavy lifting.
There's always money in conflict."
"Says the diehard peacenik?"
"Oh, I abhor real violence, but fake violence is fucking brilliant.
"Says the diehard peacenik?"
"Oh, I abhor real violence, but fake violence is fucking brilliant.
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.
My parents told me to be careful of you. That's how I knew you were the onyly one of us we could trust with our lives.
If you find someone who can forgive all your bullshit ... the least you can so is try to forgive them.
The more you care about someone, the more likely it is that your eventual parting of ways will be as sudden as it is baffling.
We're all aliens to someone. Even among our own people, most of us still feel like complete foreigners from time to time.
Some people are haunted by their pasts, but not my family. I mean, how can you be haunted by something that never really dies?
Admit it, you're probably a very different person at work than you are at home.
Everyone needs to be someone else sometimes.
Everyone needs to be someone else sometimes.
That was the appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You're only limited by your imagination.
Every kid gets "programmed" by their 'rents, Chase. That doesn't mean they have to do as they're told.
Readers love fantasy, but we need horror. Smart horror. Truthful horror. Horror that helps us make sense of a cruelly senseless world.
Natalya: It was our favorite sister of NASA who guilt me into putting my tits on line to rescuing you helpless ornaments.
Most of us think we can hide our weaknesses from the world, and sometimes, we're right. But only if we're very very strong.
You're right that not everything we do has to have some kind of social agenda, but that doesn't mean it can only be anesthetizing crap.
Victor: You guys have some kind of rallying cry? You know, "Avengers assemble?" "It's clobberin' time?" "Hulk smash?"
Nico: "Try not to die.
Nico: "Try not to die.
Most of my childhood was spent clinging to the feathers of a dulled arrow blindly fired across a starless night.
Each of us has been falling apart since day one, Chase. We just have to find a way to fall apart together.
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.
Over the years, we met every kind of person imaginable. But no one makes worse first impressions than writers.
All writing is the same: It's just making up lies until it starts to sound like the truth. That's what I do.
It's TV shows like BUFFY and ANGEL that usually have an incredible cliffhanger every commercial break that amaze me.
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.
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.
There's no graduating from this kind of education, couples just keep growing and changing until they either break up or die.