Patty Jenkins Quotes

In reality, there are very few villains who view themselves as villains. They just have a certain agenda at a certain time.

Every way of a man is right in his own eyes

I believe that even the worst people on the planet believe that they are somehow justified in their neurosis.

I always tried to play the bad guys as guys who didn't know they were bad guys. There are villains we run into all the time, but they don't think they are doing anything wrong. If they do, they think they are cunning and smart. When people break laws and ethical rules, they justify it in their own terms.

I don't think any evil character thinks that they are evil - they think they have insight that people don't.

I consider myself to be a man of principle. But, what man does not? Even the cutthroat, I have noticed, considers his actions "moral" after a fashion. Perhaps another person, reading of my life, would name me a religious tyrant. He could call me arrogant. What is to make that man's opinion any less valid than my own? I guess it all comes down to one fact: In the end, I'm the one with the armies.

Keep in mind, Eragon, that no one thinks himself a villain, and few make decisions they think are wrong. A person may dislike his choice, but he will stand by it because, even in the worst circumstances, he believes that it was the best option available to him at the time.

Every villain is a hero in his own mind.

Anyone who claims to have an entirely clear conscience is almost certainly a bore.

Wrong is for other people.

All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes.

With any villain, you have to see things from their point of view and understand that they think what they're doing will make the world a better place.

My general philosophy of playing bad guys, which I've sort of done, you know, half the time is, you know, very few people who we view as bad guys get out of bed and think, 'What evil, terrible thing am I going to do today?' Most people see their motivations as justified - as, you know, justifying whatever they do.

No villain thinks of himself as a villain, and that's the approach I always take.

I think every villain basically thinks that he or she is doing something to make his world, or the world in general, a better place.

Nobody sees themselves as being an evil person or doing something for a bad reason. There's always something that justifies it to themselves.

All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

An ideology is a complex of ideas or notions which represents itself to the thinker as an absolute truth for the interpretation of the world and his situation within it; it leads the thinker to accomplish an act of self-deception for the purpose of justification, obfuscation and evasion in some sense or other

Man is very vain; he likes to feel that he is responsible for all the favorable things that happen, and he is innocent of all the unfavorable happenings

Humanity never met a dictator or demagogue who said, “I’m a bad person. I want to do bad things.” The worst among us always feel justified.

There are no consequences for Snowden breaking the law in Snowden's World. It's where his massively inflated ego dictates the rules and determines which he will follow.

Even people that are evil believe what they're doing is good. I don't agree with those people, but it's about understanding that there are those kinds of points of view.

There's no black and white in this world; it's all grey. That's what people are like! No one think they're a baddie. Everyone thinks they're trying to do their bit to make the world a better place.

We do ourselves a disservice when we self-servingly massage the record.