Terence Winter Quotes

I'm drawn to villains that are three-dimensional and raw and that I can kind of see in my own life.

Operas elucidate, in a way sometimes absent in other theatrical productions, the very human fact that in every hero, there is a thread of duplicity. In every villain, there is another side to consider: We don't have to like him or her, but we are compelled to think about motivation.

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

I'm attracted to playing characters that have flaws.

I'll tell you, there's no goodies and baddies in the world, there's just people with intentions that sometimes clash.

There have to be moments when you glimpse something decent, something life-affirming even in the most twisted character. That's where the real art lies. See, I always suspect characters who are painted as lovely, decent human beings. I would always question where the darkness lies.

I'm interested in people that don't always do the right thing, its much more akin to what I know about life.

I do believe as human beings we are a great mass of contradictions.

I like characters who have faults. I'm drawn to darker people.

We all have dark sides to ourselves, and I want to portray that in a realistic way.

I'm definitely interested in exploring human contradictions. Contradictions are what make us human - it's what defines us as human beings. Contradictions are what make characters interesting, and I've been lucky to be presented with characters who have a lot of contradictions.

I find flawed characters much more interesting than perfect ones and enjoy the challenge of making readers root for them in spite of their unsympathetic path and destructive choices.

What I love about the Don Draper character is that he's so real and filled with all these contradictions.

That's what I love about history - nuance. I don't believe in unalloyed heroes. Everyone's got warts, and everyone's got a surprise side.

It's very hard to play a man without any flaws.

Looking at 'Batman v Superman' - which I can watch objectively, since I'm in it for all of two seconds - I see different layers. It is not preachy, and represents the gray we live in as human beings.

Villains are far more interesting to play than nice people.

All my characters are quite relatable, as they are flawed, true, and honest. All of us are flawed; nobody is pure and pious.

I don't want to watch a show or a movie about the guy who doesn't have any problems, who is sort of a goodie two shoes and just does everything morally right, because that's not the person I relate to. That's not who I am. That's not what anyone is.

You can't just blame things on evil. Everyone's a human, so when people say that somebody's behaving 'inhuman,' it's not. It's very human - it's just not a very nice side of it.

I'm not interested in a good man's life. I'm interested in contradiction.

Everyone has kind of done something that is bad and everyone has shades of good, but everyone has that darkness. There's always that little twinkle of darkness in everyone's eye.

As a human race, we have good people and bad people, and everyone has agendas.

People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.