Tahir Raj Bhasin Quotes

I look for characters that are extremely flawed and the anti-hero.

A lot of the time, a moral compass is all that separates a hero from being a villain; otherwise, the two are very much the same. Both are generally the richest and most complex characters, and they get to have all the fun. I guess it's those types of roles that I ultimately gravitate towards.

I'm very glad people love 'Breaking Bad,' but the harder character to write is the good character that's as interesting and as engaging as the bad guy.

You go back to look over the body of my work, and there are no archetypal villains in my books.

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

In any story, the villain is the catalyst. The hero's not a person who will bend the rules or show the cracks in his armor. He's one-dimensional intentionally, but the villain is the person who owns up to what he is and stands by it.

Good guy' or 'bad guy', hero or anti hero; doesn't matter to me, what role I play, only the character have something magical.

I don't play the role of a villain, really, but I like playing anti-hero kind of roles. I like characters where there's conflict, drama, and more personal investment than just being heroes.

It is much more fun to write about villains then heroes. The villains are the ones that think out the scheme, and the heroes just kind of come along for the ride.

If the reader cares, I don't think it matters so much whether your hero is in fact an anti-hero.

I don't believe in anti-heroes. Duke Wayne played a mean guy but never an anti-hero.

In most shows, there's usually a hero or a protagonist, and even if there are multiple heroes or protagonists, most shows try and make it so you really always know who's the good guy and who's the bad guy.

Look, we're in the time of the anti-hero.

I want to look at this character from all points of view. I know I don't want to make them all good or all bad or all anything... the story itself often helps create the character.

I've always had antiheroes in my film.

Usually, you just have a hero and a villain - in any movie, not just a superhero movie.

Nobody wants to play the antihero.

The anti-hero walks the morally gray path and constantly flirts with redemption, and that flirtation is just a blast to write.

I have played bad-guy roles, but they were significant to the story.

A lot of characters now on TV have moved into being anti-heroes, but I wanted to be the hero.

The Winter Soldier (Sebastian Stan) has done things that are far more heinous than anything Grant Ward has ever done as far as we know, and yet, at the end of the movie, you're rooting for him to come back on the side of the angels.

Whenever I have tried to make a character bad, they end up being good in some way.

The nice thing about 'Farscape' is that you got to be the good guy and still do the bad guy things.

'3:10 to Yuma' was one that I just kept on talking and thinking about after reading it. And I think the reason is because, like in most Westerns, you have the very clear-cut bad-guy/good-guy, however, as the movie progresses, you kind of see that it's a very fine line that divides these two.

If you think about Shakespeare, you remember Richard III and Macbeth before you remember Ferdinand, whose role is just to fall in love and be a bit of a wimp. I love the baddies. More important, though, is making the baddies somehow, weirdly, understood.