A biography for Brian K. Vaughanhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“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 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.”
“What cruel creatures men are. Our bodies tell us to love so many, but there's room in our hearts for so few.”
“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.”
“I start with something that makes me angry or confused, and then I write about it. It's a form of self-help.”
“Ask a child's guardians what it takes to be good at their jobs, and most will answer with a single word... SACRIFICE. Parents give up so much: time, sleep, freedom, money, intimacy... pretty much everything but complaining how much they sacrifice.”
“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.”
“The Government's supposed to be there for people when nobody else is, right? But it never works like that.”
“Well, I've always wanted to call my son”
“When a man carries an instrument of violence, he'll always find the justification to use it. If we really want to escape this war, we have to stop bringing it with us.”
“You're the one saying how vital offing these kids and grabbing their brat is to the war effort, right? Well, I'm telling you I need way more cash to do it right, so--Lying.How have you not murdered that creature by now?Oh, I've tried.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Readers love fantasy, but we need horror. Smart horror. Truthful horror. Horror that helps us make sense of a cruelly senseless world.”
“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.”
“But nothing warps time quite like childhood”
“Fantasy/science-fiction stories have been around almost as long as each genre, but every hybrid now lives in the shadow of 'Star Wars.'”
“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.”