Anita Hassanandani Reddy Quotes

I don't believe novels should carry an obvious message. I don't want to write characters you can immediately say are good or bad; as in life, most people are a mixture.

The beauty of Sudhir's protagonists is that they are not shown as black and white. There are various layers to the characters.

Very few of my characters are totally heroic or totally villainous.

I like to show the grey area in all my characters.

I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white.

The characters that have greys are the more interesting characters. The hero who sometimes crosses the line and the villain who sometimes doesn't are just much more interesting.

I don't think of the characters as being good or bad because that doesn't help me as a writer.

Evil is such a simplistic way to describe any character, be it Iago or Caliban, or any character from history.

Sometimes, the smaller roles in movies can be the most interesting. If you only take the stance that you'll only play central characters in movies, you'll find yourself not being able to indulge in that morally grey terrain that makes support characters so rich and interesting.

I think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring.

The bad guys are not typical; they are not just bad, they are interesting. They might be good or bad.

My theory of characterization is basically this: Put some dirt on a hero, and put some sunshine on the villain, one brush stroke of beauty on the villain.

What I always studied in screenwriting from my mentor John Glavin was that the most interesting characters are characters with shades of gray.

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

No characters in 'Stay Close,' including the leads, are black and white. I want them to be grey. I think that makes for a much more interesting reading experience, something that will stay with you a little bit longer.

It's never black and white on 'Game of Thrones.' If you think it's black and white, you're watching it wrong.

I want to play a character with grey shades.

I look forward to parts that have a dimension or depth to them. This makes it interesting for me to do and the audience to watch. Whether he's a chocolate boy die hard romantic or a gangster with swag, every good has a little bad and every bad has a little good in them.

I want to give my characters nuance.

I get the feeling that audiences have become mature and they understand that not every character is in black or white. There can be grey shades to it.

I love the character of Jaime Lannister. He's just so complex - a character that we love to hate - but it's a lot more complex than hatred. It starts off, and he seems so arrogant and so smug.

We don't live in a world that's black and white.

We're not one thing, as human beings, so any character that is written uni-dimensional, that's just a shallow character with shallow writing and shallow acting.

I've always preferred writing about grey characters and human characters. Whether they are giants or elves or dwarves, or whatever they are, they're still human, and the human heart is still in conflict with the self.

I did a play once where a reviewer said, 'Martin Freeman's too nice to play a bad guy.' And I thought: 'Well, bad guys aren't always bad guys, you know?' When I see someone play the obvious villain, I know it's false.