Rich Moore Quotes

I really like playing the bad guy. There are so many more objectives to play when you're mad or villainesque, or when there's some agenda that you have. That's drama, that's where the heart lives. I love playing the bad guy, but especially the bad guy who's still with the girl.

I think too often in films, people think endings are a summation of plot, and I don't like that. Because once you know where you're going as an audience member, then it's like a video game. You're just waiting for them to get through the levels and beat the bad guy. And I just think that's boring.

For me, in any story that I take, the antagonist is more interesting and multi-dimensional.

The villain of any story is often the most compelling character.

We shall perish by guile just as we slew.

Let none think to fly the danger for soon or late love is his own avenger.

I'll tell you the secret. When you begin with a character, you want to begin by creating a villain.

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.

In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict.

All I had, originally, were pages of Nolan's dialogue. I think his character serves the story in a nice way. He's a Greek chorus for the goings-on in the Hamptons.

Villains are fun to play.

Every thriller needs a good bad guy; without a bad guy, there's no thriller.

Does my character hate Bree? Well, let's just put it this way. Bree hasn't seen the last of me. I gave that drunk gal a ride home a few episodes ago and she turned on me!

I write what I like to read, and I enjoy love triangles in YA and adult fiction - not to mention in other media like TV, opera, theatre, and even in video games! I relish when dark and compelling characters compete for our protagonist's heart. The doubts, the uncertainty - the jealousy! - can be breathtaking.

The Whigs have cast me off, and they shall repent it.

If they turn renegades, seize them and slay them wherever ye find them.

A good servant makes a bad enemy

I have gold for my friends, and iron for my enemies

A novel is about people.

Miss Britney Spears took a dude that was already with a girl that had babies. And sometimes when you do that kind of stuff and take a dude, that's called karma.

The leading character isn't always the most important or interesting character; when people think that the protagonist is the character portrayed, it's people who haven't read Shakespeare.

If significant amounts of time go by without suspenseful action - which is often most powerfully motivated by backstory - the story loses momentum, and readers lose interest.

Hate begets hate and if karma and punishment is the only language you understand then the road ahead will be rocky.

If someone has to be the villain, I'll be the villain. I have no problem with it. The movies still say, 'Starring... the villain.'

The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man's perfidy will rebound on himself.