Nathan Sawaya Quotes

There are good characters and bad characters.

What are movies for if not to have the good guys triumph over the bad ones?

I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.

This is a struggle of good and evil. And we're the good.

I've never been specifically attached to westerns, but there are those I like - one of the best westerns I've seen is 'Unforgiven.' I think the genre has something extremely powerful that can allow them to talk about good and evil in a very straight way.

The most unrealistic thing I've ever read in comics is when some group of characters calls themselves the Brotherhood of Evil or the Masters of Evil. I don't believe any character believes their goals to be truly evil.

I only help the superheroes, I don't help the villains.

In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.

The eternal conflict of good and the best with bad and the worst is on.

I want to show people how there are variations and different interpretations of good and evil.

Most superheroes are painted with a specific moral objective that makes them who they are. And that moral objective influences everything they do, so there's an expectation for what you're going to see out of a certain character.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.

Good action films - not crap, but good action films - are really morality plays. They deal in modern, mythic culture.

Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice.

I've played quite a lot of crooks and killers, and that's quite interesting. Then Dumbledore is the complete opposite, isn't he? He's a nice old man.

Thrillers provide the reader with a safe escape into a dangerous world where the stakes are as high as can be imagined with unpredictable outcomes. It's a perfect genre in which to explore hard issues of good and evil, a mirror that allows the reader to see both the good and not so good in themselves.

I feel like there's different kinds of evil and there's different kinds of villains, and as much as I would like to be dark and playing with knives... it's not me and it's not my look.

I approach serious subjects, and I like to have the good guys win and have the parents among the good guys.

Wonder Woman is not horrible. Her villains should be.

You can only tell so many bad-guy stories.

When you're talking about villainy, then you're automatically circling around to talk about justice.

We can overcome evil with greater good.

I think most people know inherently that good wins.

When evil men destroy, good men must build and bind.