Brian K. Vaughan Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“By the time you have your protagonist attempting to assassinate the Pope, you've sort of signaled that everything is on the table.”

“Fans of my books have just been supremely nice.”

“For a lot of arcane shipping reasons, new comics, even digital ones, have a long history of only being released on Wednesdays.”

“I am a big theater fan. It's mostly just being pretentious, I think, and trying to look smart.”