Rick Famuyiwa Quotes

People have their complexities. They have their heroic moments and their villainous moments, too.

I don't think anybody's all good or all bad.

We are not angels. Nor are we the devils you have made us out to be.

In life, we are all more than one thing, but for some reason in movies, you're either this or that. It reduces the complexity of a human being in so many ways.

I don't love to generalize, because I think every person has bad and good in them.

But there was more to it than that. As the Amazing Maurice said, it was just a story about people and rats. And the difficult part of it was deciding who the people were, and who were the rats.

Everything in life is gray, you know.

Nobody is all good or all bad.

What you might see as depravity is, to me, just another aspect of the human condition.

No human being in history was all good or all bad, or all black or all white.

I don't believe in bad and good, I believe we are all a mix of both.

Police are not all bad guys. Nobody is all bad guys.

Life isn't one-dimensional. The world isn't simply divided into good versus evil. I think we're all capable of both.

'Lucky' is for laughs, and there's really nothing funny that I'm doing on 'Dexter.' I think more than anything, both comment on the fact that anybody is capable of anything. Just because they are the shy guy in the corner doesn't mean that they are a harmless little bunny.

Nobody is all good or bad.

Mike and I are always drawn to the idea that there is light and dark inside every being, rather than the old two-dimensional trope of good versus evil.

People are three-dimensional. They're not good or bad. They're not righteous or unrighteous. They are a million different things.

You don't have people who are monsters and only do bad. There's good and bad for everybody. It's all a spectrum.

[Cannery Row's] inhabitants are, as the man once said, 'whores, pimps, gamblers, and sons of bitches,' by which he meant everybody. Had the man looked through another peephole he might have said, 'saints and angels and martyrs and holy men,' and he would have meant the same thing.

And what we students of history always learn is that the human being is a very complicated contraption and that they are not good or bad but are good and bad and the good comes out of the bad and the bad out of the good, and the devil take the hindmost.

You learn eventually that, while there are no villains, there are no heroes either. And until you make the final discovery that there are only human beings, who are therefore all the more fascinating, you are liable to miss something.

I've learned a lot about good and evil. They are not always what they appear to be.

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

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.

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.