Tahir Raj Bhasin Quotes

I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white.

Sometimes even when the book is over I don't know who's good and who's bad. It's really more interesting, I think, to write about gray characters than it is to write about black and white.

The thing that I love about 'Scandal' is every character, it's not clear if they're good or bad. Everyone is both good and bad.

What I always studied in screenwriting from my mentor John Glavin was that the most interesting characters are characters with shades of gray.

I like playing complex, interesting characters. Sometimes I don't think there's much of a strong line between right and wrong for a character. Every character is somewhere on a moral spectrum.

Very few of my characters are totally heroic or totally villainous.

It's as boring to see a completely evil villain as it is to see a completely good guy.

The bad guys are not typical; they are not just bad, they are interesting. They might be good or bad.

The characters that have greys are the more interesting characters. The hero who sometimes crosses the line and the villain who sometimes doesn't are just much more interesting.

No characters in 'Stay Close,' including the leads, are black and white. I want them to be grey. I think that makes for a much more interesting reading experience, something that will stay with you a little bit longer.

I think conflicted characters are always more interesting.

The beauty of Sudhir's protagonists is that they are not shown as black and white. There are various layers to the characters.

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

We all are who we are. We're not necessarily good, and we're not necessarily bad. So much television, in the writing, is so one-dimensional, in that aspect, where you have your good guys and you have your bad guys.

I don't believe novels should carry an obvious message. I don't want to write characters you can immediately say are good or bad; as in life, most people are a mixture.

Evil is such a simplistic way to describe any character, be it Iago or Caliban, or any character from history.

People are much more complicated in real life, but my characters are as subtle and nuanced as I can make them. But if you say my characters are too black and white, you've missed the point. Villains are meant to be black-hearted in popular novels. If you say I have a grey-hearted villain, then I've failed.

I like to show the grey area in all my characters.

I'm attracted to those kinds of roles that could be good or could be bad, and you just don't know.

It's much less interesting as an actor playing someone who's purely good or purely evil.

As Faulkner says, all of us have the capacity in us for great good and for great evil, for love but also for hate. I wanted to write those kinds of complex character in a fantasy, and not just have all the good people get together to fight the bad guy.

It's never black and white on 'Game of Thrones.' If you think it's black and white, you're watching it wrong.

You can't play a guy who's just a snake, because what do you draw on?

I like the characters that have some redeeming quality or if it's interesting to me in any way.

However, for my characters to have depth, they have to be human and complex, have both qualities and flaws, do the right things at times, and at others, things they'll regret having done and not necessarily know how to undo.