I don't start a story until I know where it's going to end. Brian K. Vaughan More Quotes by Brian K. Vaughan More Quotes From Brian K. Vaughan I know I'm a grumpy old man, but I'm always more delighted by readers talking about the actual comics than people talking about how eager they are to have their favorite comics be "elevated" into another medium. Adaptations are great, but for me, comics have always been the destination, not a stepping-stone to get somewhere else. Brian K. Vaughan adaptation men people It's just people who grew up in that time are suddenly old enough to be creators themselves, but I think they have a little perspective. I'm 40 now, and I have children of my own. Before I forget my own childhood completely, I want to take some time to take a look at the '80s and think back. Brian K. Vaughan children people thinking I genuinely am sort of an emotionally stunted man-child, so if I just write to the top of my intelligence, it sounds like a teenager. I like being around teenagers. It's good for drama; they feel everything much more intensely than adults do, their lives are much more interesting than ours. They're mutants. They have these weird bodies that are rebelling against them and changing every day. Teenagers always equal good drama. Brian K. Vaughan teenager writing drama I think a lot of creators are attracted to those toys they got to play with when they were young, and everyone wants to write a Superman story or a Batman story or a Spider-Man story. I don't know, if it's been successful for me, it should be successful for anyone. "Hit the ground with your feet running" is the secret of breaking new characters when it seems like no one else is having any luck. Brian K. Vaughan writing running character I've written about teenage heroes before, on Marvel's Runaways, and I remember at the time when I pitched it, it was a team that had more female members than males. Even that caused of much discussion about, "Will there be a market for this, and should there at least be equal number of male and females?" Brian K. Vaughan teenage team hero I'm just grateful to finally be telling a story with all females at the lead. Brian K. Vaughan female grateful stories These are the young women [in Stand by Me] that we grew up knowing and hopefully they feel a little rough around the edges, because it's true to life. Brian K. Vaughan stand-by-me true-life knowing We're always looking roughly 30 years behind us. In the '80s they were obsessed with the '50s and so on. Brian K. Vaughan obsessed behinds years We're not trying to be deliberately frustrating, but we are laying the tracks for a mystery, and it's one that we have all figured out. We wanted this to be kind of like the way that Cliff [Chang] and I felt about the Cold War in the '80s when we were 12. Brian K. Vaughan track trying war There's just something about that late '80s that suddenly feels like it has something to teach us. Brian K. Vaughan teach late feels I remember seeing Stand by Me, when I was around 12, and just feeling like, "This is so refreshing to see kids swear and smoke cigarettes like my friends." It just felt much more real than the Sesame Street version of childhood that I'd been spoon-fed. Brian K. Vaughan childhood real kids I grew up in the suburbs of Cleveland in 1988 and there was just one year where suddenly all of the delivery kids that used to be boys were suddenly girls. It happened at our church too. Altar boys were suddenly altar girls. There was just this sense that all these young women knew there were openings here to be the first of their kind. Brian K. Vaughan girl boys kids 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 your everything you time 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 ending feel you support 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 job service ego work I don't think I have discipline when it comes to anything. Brian K. Vaughan anything think discipline 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 feel best cool work 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 down mind time book 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 my-own easy time world 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 never me people ideas
