Brian K. Vaughan Quotes - Page 3

Reef aquariums are definitely the pinnacle of the hobby.

It's TV shows like 'Buffy' and 'Angel' that usually have an incredible cliffhanger every commercial break that amaze me.

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.

I write the book for one person — for Fiona [Staples, the artist]. I spend a lot of time just thinking how she'll react to things and manipulating her into drawing perverse, horrific things. It's a really weird job but I enjoy it.

Brubaker and Phillipss books have always been about eight years ahead of their time.

There are a lot of differing opinions on that. Some people think you should change out more, but I think changing just 20 percent is less stressful on the aquarium and fish. Once you get used to the regimen, it's pretty easy.

Fantasy/science-fiction stories have been around almost as long as each genre, but every hybrid now lives in the shadow of 'Star Wars.'

My parents grew up during the space race, and I think they imagined the future would be us living on moon bases and everyone has rocket shoes.

No. No, first comes boyhood. You get to play with soldiers and spacemen, cowboys and ninjas, pirates and robots. But before you know it, all that comes to an end. And then, Remo Williams, is when the adventure begins.

Gert: Wake me when the fight scene's over. Kitty Pryde: Oy, tell me about it. Hey, I'm Kitty. You the token pacifist of your group? Gert: Not exactly. Pacifists are like vegans, I'm more of a vegetarian. I enjoy fish and occasional maulings.

Victor: You guys have some kind of rallying cry? You know, "Avengers assemble?" "It's clobberin' time?" "Hulk smash?" Nico: "Try not to die.

I've always thought of fantasy as a genre of best-case scenarios, and horror as a genre of worst-case scenarios.

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.

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.

When I was in college, I was belittling the woman who later become my wife for not knowing who Boba Fett was, and she responded by asking me if I knew who the Prime Minister of Israel was. Surprisingly? Not Mon Mothma.

Print and digital comics will always coexist.

People just want good stories.

To try and imagine that I'm another person is always going to be hard - whether I'm writing about a truck driver or someone who is gay, who's trans, who is of a different ethnicity or creed. But it would be boring if I always had to write about myself and my limited viewpoint.

I've never gotten anything but support and thanks from people for having diverse books.

There's just something about that late '80s that suddenly feels like it has something to teach us.

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.

It was interesting looking back at the '80s and trying to find newspaper headlines from the time - the cliché of history repeating itself.

As you get older you start to see these events and leaders, and movements of the pendulum swinging back.

Each collected edition of Paper Girls that we put out will largely be set in an entirely different era.

I like things that are weirdly imaginative and couldn't be real, but I also like stories that are recognizable and relatable.