Jennifer Beals Quotes

Kolaigaran' is not a typical hero-villain subject. We explored the other side of human nature, which is grey.

Nobody's all good or bad, and nobody's all light or dark. Every human being has so many different aspects and facets to them. And there can be something noble and something really dark and dangerous going on in a person all at the same time.

Usually, characters that are doing something nefarious have some extra layers to them. The general rule is bad people don't necessarily think they are bad.

If you can write a character who is attractive but morally reprehensible, then you've got a character. It's got to feel like people I know and it doesn't just become a bag of tricks.

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.

What 'True Blood' does really well is that it balances on the line between good and evil - you blur the distinction between the two.

Characters with no integrity are just as interesting as characters with lots of integrity.

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.

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

I tend to look for the good in bad people and the bad in good people, to make them human. 'Cause I don't think that people generally are that black and white. Maybe in movie-land they can be... but that isn't necessarily all there is.

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

Well, you know, in any novel you would hope that the hero has someone to push back against, and villains - I find the most interesting villains those who do the right things for the wrong reasons, or the wrong things for the right reasons. Either one is interesting. I love the gray area between right and wrong.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

It's as boring to see a completely evil villain as it is to see a completely good guy.

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 always end up taking people that are morally ambiguous.

Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.

Everyone on the planet has a dark and a light. That's a multi-dimensional character.

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

I'm no angel, but I'm no monster, either.

There are heroes in evil as well as in good.

Even good characters have their dark sides, and I think it is important that women aren't seen as innately good.

I want to play a character with grey shades.

The world is made up of good and evil, and everybody has their own take, and everybody thinks they are on the good side, and a very few, select group of us will admit that we come from the dark side.

Somebody - and I'm going to guess it was Hitchcock - once said that everyone has their reasons. If you remember that, as a writer, you'll write better than average villains.