LZ Granderson Quotes

Nobody's perfect, and everybody plays the heel and the baby face at times in real life.

I feel like life is much greater than a hero or a villain: there's good people that sometimes make mistakes.

Nobody is all good or all bad.

No human being in history was all good or all bad, or all black or all white.

I always look at films as real stories with real people in real situations. That's why I struggle with the whole notion of calling someone the 'good guy' or the 'bad guy', because I think we all have potential to do good things and all have the potential to do bad things.

No one is all good or all bad, and there's many different ways to go about your life.

The way I look at humanity, I don't think there's good guys or bad guys. We're all potentially bad and potentially good.

I don't want to play a bad guy who doesn't have a bit of good in him.

Men are not altogether bad or altogether good.

Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad things.

I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and horror in beauty.

People have their complexities. They have their heroic moments and their villainous moments, too.

I don't think anybody's all good or all bad.

There's always a theme I'm drawn to, that we humans are not good or bad. We're all a mixture of both. We can have great compassion or commit great violence.

I think all of us have a hero and a villain in us.

As Faulkner says, all of us have the capacity in us for great good and for great evil, for love but also for hate. I wanted to write those kinds of complex character in a fantasy, and not just have all the good people get together to fight the bad guy.

I don't believe that there's a good guy and a bad guy. Unless it's like Superman or Batman, there is no good guy and bad guy.

Inside each of us, there is the seed of both good and evil. It's a constant struggle as to which one will win. And one cannot exist without the other.

Life isn't one-dimensional. The world isn't simply divided into good versus evil. I think we're all capable of both.

Good and bad men are less than they seem.

Nobody is all good or bad.

In real life, I don't think anybody is all one shade. People who are perceived to be really good have bad thoughts and inclinations that they sometimes act on, I'm sure, and people have different sides to themselves.

Mike and I are always drawn to the idea that there is light and dark inside every being, rather than the old two-dimensional trope of good versus evil.

I've learned a lot about good and evil. They are not always what they appear to be.

In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.