Demian Bichir Quotes

We are all somewhere or the other a little grey, not black and white. We have our imperfections.

If you look in real life, it is very hard to describe people as good people, bad people, heroes or villains. People aren't bad people. They all have their justifications.

If I play a villain, I try to find his lightness and his good side. And if I play a hero or a good guy, I'll try to find his darkness or his flaws. Because I don't believe in good and evil. I believe in grays.

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.

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

None of my on-screen roles have been outright negative. They have all been grey, and that is how it is in reality, too. None of us are nice and sweet 24/7.

I don't know if I've ever met anyone that's purely good or purely evil myself. I think most of us live with some varying degrees between the two.

Good people can do terrible things, and that's what life is all about, the complexities and grey areas. And often characters aren't written that way in movies, especially characters for women. So you end up being either one thing or the other.

The endings for all my characters seem sufficiently human and messy for me to feel comfortable with them. In some ways they have only moved an inch, but sometimes an inch is a great distance.

Nobody is all good or all bad.

I'm interested in characters that are complex people.

No human being in history was all good or all bad, or all black or all white.

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

The literary story is a story that deals with the complicated human heart with an honest tolerance for the ambiguity in which we live. No good guys, no bad guys, just guys: that is, people bearing up in the crucible of their days and certainly not always - if ever - capable of articulating their condition.

Life isn't one-dimensional. The world isn't simply divided into good versus evil. I think we're all capable of both.

I'm interested in writing that explores all sides of human beings.

It's interesting if you can talk about the large moments and also the small moments to understand the deepest complexities of a man by trying to imagine who they are.

Nobody is all good or bad.

I'm not interested in a character's goodness. I'm interested in what makes them human.

I don't find anything black and white; I find grey in every person, and that is what excites me.

Gee, I wish that life were so black and white that you can't think of a single person who, you know, a good person who has done bad things.

The truth is complicated, and few people are actually monsters.

I don't think anyone is purely evil or purely brilliant, certainly for Prince Charles.

I was not interested in doing the plot of Oedipus in blackface. I did wonder, what would these people have been like if they hadn't been in that situation?... One could look at Oedipus, or at my character Augustus, as a cynical schemer who did everything because he was hungry for power. But that's just too easy. I'm more interested in how humans can embody conflicting goals and emotions.

I feel like the world we live in seems to be full of an increasingly grey area, but the culture that we live in seems to be getting really entrenched in black and white positions, and I think it's urgent to talk about that because it's going to kill us all.