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. – Brian K. Vaughan
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. – Brian K. Vaughan
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. – Brian K. Vaughan
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. – Brian K. Vaughan
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. – Brian K. Vaughan
Fantasy/science-fiction stories have been around almost as long as each genre, but every hybrid now lives in the shadow of ‘Star Wars.’ – Brian K. Vaughan
All writing is the same: It’s just making up lies until it starts to sound like the truth. That’s what I do. – Brian K. Vaughan
I wanted to write a story about a future where everyone has a secret identity, in part because the Internet no longer exists. – Brian K. Vaughan
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. – Brian K. Vaughan
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. – Brian K. Vaughan
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. – Brian K. Vaughan
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. – Brian K. Vaughan
Even though I was trained in play writing and screenwriting, when I sat down to write a comic book for the first time, Alan Moore was first and foremost in my mind. – Brian K. Vaughan
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. – Brian K. Vaughan
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. – Brian K. Vaughan
I am a big theater fan. It’s mostly just being pretentious, I think, and trying to look smart. – Brian K. Vaughan
I sort of jumped out of movies and into the lifeboat of comics. I loved it right away. It was the opposite of film school. Whatever was in my imagination could end up in the finished product. There were just no limitations. – Brian K. Vaughan
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. – Brian K. Vaughan
That was the appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You’re only limited by your imagination. – Brian K. Vaughan
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. – Brian K. Vaughan
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. – Brian K. Vaughan
I start with something that makes me angry or confused, and then I write about it. It’s a form of self-help. – Brian K. Vaughan
By the time you have your protagonist attempting to assassinate the Pope, you’ve sort of signaled that everything is on the table. – Brian K. Vaughan
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. – Brian K. Vaughan
