Christopher Golden Quotes

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

We should not be simply fighting evil in the name of good, but struggling against the certainties of people who claim always to know where good and evil are to be found.

You know how confusing the whole good-evil concept is for me.

In a perfect world everything would be either black or white, right or wrong, and everyone would know the difference. But this isn't a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is.

I am unwilling to be wholly good—and please don't regard me as wholly evil!

You can choose who you want to be the hero [in Hard Candy], but youll be second-guessing yourself -- theres just no right answer. Our society is obsessed with finding good and finding evil, but I think were all capable of anything.

All of the films I have made, that I have chosen to make, are all about the thin line between good and evil. And also the thin line that exists in each and every one of us. That's what my films are about.

There is a certain kind of morality which is even more alien to good and evil than amorality is.

I was once told by a very well-respected editor, "Category horror is about good vs. evil, that's all it is." And I thought, "That's why it's no good. That's why I find that stuff unreadable." One is looking for something that's a little more emotionally complex and nuanced.

I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and horror in beauty.

Everyone spends their lives trying to balance their world between good and evil.

We always want to find good and bad guys, and I don't believe in that.

I don't think good and evil are polarized.

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

My idea of what's good and bad and right and wrong is maybe greyer than most, and I like writing about that.

Terms like 'good' and 'bad' are extremely simplistic in what is a far more complex situation.

Life is not simple, and people can't be boxed into being either heroes or villains.

There's no good guys and bad guys.

You know, I think a lot of times what happens when we as actors know we're playing a bad guy is we get into bad guy mode. You know what, man? In real life, bad people do good things too and good people do bad things. So you don't necessarily have to be the stereotypical bad guy to still do bad things.

Men are not altogether bad or altogether good.

There are the good and bad and every morrally ambiguous shade in between.

It's very true that you can be both selfless and selfish at the same time. What we tend towards, particularly in filmmaking, is this binary sort of, 'This is a good guy, this is a bad guy.' And I quite like the fact that life is a bit more complex than that.

I'm always interested in what we're not being shown. So if you're playing ostensibly a quote-unquote 'baddie,' what are their good sides, and vice versa.

There are heroes in evil as well as in good.

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.