Brian K. Vaughan Quotes

I wanted to be a film and television writer and producer.

I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.

So with 'There Will Be Blood,' I didn't even really feel like I was adapting a book. I was just desperate to find stuff to write.

I write for film or, in this case, television when I haven't got a play cooking.

I get asked a lot about writing for games and prose and film, and I will do some, but I can never see myself leaving comics. I love it too much.

I love movies, I love television and I know that the kind of stuff I love to watch and that's what I want to do.

I'm a writer. I'm not an actress.

I love film and TV, the medium of them, just because it's such a smaller screen. It's much more precise. Ideally, I'd like to do maybe a film a year of some sort and use that to work more in the theatre because theatre really is my first love.

The problem with the screenplay is that it's not literature, and it's not a film. It's a very weird, technical kind of blueprint that will be absolutely transformed into something else that is not that, you know? Honestly, a screenplay is no literature.

You can be far more challenging, articulate and intelligent writing for television than you can writing for the cinema.

One of the best things that happened for me as a playwright is becoming a comic-book writer.

I'm just attracted to good material and great characters and that can come in any form, whether it's television or film or a theatre piece.

Comics is still my first love. But I always did other kinds of writing, too, so I think of myself as a writer first.

TV is where a writer can write his novel.

When I was in advertising, I did a great deal of work on television commercials. A co-worker and I wrote a screenplay, which led to a few more screenplays, and some were optioned by production companies. I was advised to move to California but didn't want to make the move. I decided to use another form of storytelling, so I wrote a novel.

Once, I optioned a novel and tried to do a screenplay on it, which was great fun, but I was too respectful. I was only 100 pages into the novel and I had about 90 pages of movie script going. I realized I had a lot to learn.

I'm trying my hand at writing. I'm writing a couple of projects for HBO, a half hour comedy and a miniseries.

I think graphic novels are closer to prose than film, which is a really different form.

I don't think I'm the right man to adapt a book.

Seriously, you know - I love to write. I enjoy the process; I enjoy the different processes, because writing for film and television and graphic novels is all very different. So I've never had the feeling of, 'Oh, you have to do this one thing.'

I love film and have taken a stab at a screenplay. I love writing dialogue and found it highly enjoyable.

I guess, taking away all the theatrics or the costuming and the outer layers of what I do, I'm a writer... I write.

I've continued to write fiction since being in television. TV is a different kind of writing, but it's all writing. It was David Milch of 'Deadwood' who helped me to see it that way. We later collaborated on the short-lived 'John from Cincinnati,' but I'm very proud of the work we did together.

I want to be an author/director and I'm writing my second book now and I want to make a movie of it, and I hope I get to do this for the rest of my life.

If you're writing a screenplay from scratch, it involves a lot of creation.