Matt Czuchry Quotes

I love the character of Jaime Lannister. He's just so complex - a character that we love to hate - but it's a lot more complex than hatred. It starts off, and he seems so arrogant and so smug.

Like most people, I'm fascinated by characters who are completely flawed personalities, riven by anguish and doubt, and are psychologically suspect.

I think I'm drawn to characters with complexity or who are under duress in some way and have some conflict going on.

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.

One of the things that I really enjoyed playing with Ender was how he's constantly struggling between his brother and his sister. It's like he's got two sides to him. And I've always wanted to play a darker character, and in this film and in the novel, Ender has his moments where he isn't a glorified hero.

Everybody has a dark side. It's just we are very in touch with it.

'Armor On' explains why I needed armor in the first place. Sonically, you'll hear this battle of, 'I love you, no I don't. I love you, I hate you.' That's what you'll feel. You see the story kind of fight against itself.

I like to write about characters who are conflicted.

That's the Elektra I tried to portray: one that's always in the grey. She is a tortured soul.

Ah, well, being conflicted means you can live a shallow life without copping to be a shallow person.

We all have dark sides to ourselves, and I want to portray that in a realistic way.

There's a darkness to Riddick that I think allows people to want him to do bad things because you know Riddick is going to do bad things: that's just the way it is. But I think that at his core, who he is and what he's fighting for is something that everybody can identify with.

Many of my characters struggle with loneliness, that is fair to say.

I enjoy playing characters who are struggling, particularly with themselves.

I think a villain who starts his morning looking in the mirror, wringing his hands, and going, 'How can I be evil today?' is not an interesting villain. An interesting villain is a person who you understand on some level, I think.

The sad truth is, there's more Walter White in me than I'd care to admit, because if I truly was as kind as people think I am, I wouldn't be able to write Walter White.

Namor has shades of grey but always ends up doing the right thing. I've played characters with an edge - played villains if not super villains - and he's an anti-hero.

For me, what really excites me about my characters and what pushes their core is the kind of dark, sad side of life.

In real life, I don't think anybody is all one shade. People who are perceived to be really good have bad thoughts and inclinations that they sometimes act on, I'm sure, and people have different sides to themselves.

The Rated-R Superstar was usually a vile and horrible human being who had some moments of being a good guy.

Kolaigaran' is not a typical hero-villain subject. We explored the other side of human nature, which is grey.

I like the idea of a character that you wanna like even though you know he's making immoral choices throughout the film.

The demons you have are what motivate you to make your art. This is what drives the detective, this is what drives the painter, this is what drives the writer: a conflicting urge to forget pain and at the same time remember it and fight for some kind of justice. I know these powerful things are inside of me and everyone in some way or another.

Elektra isn't a villain and isn't a good girl, but as Frank Miller said, she is one of the villains with a weak streak in them, and that's a failure that I tried to explore.

I was never more alive than when the Dark Passenger was driving.