Lee Daniels Quotes

We don't live in a world that's black and white.

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.

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

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

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.

A character on screen that's the 'good guy' or the 'bad guy,' they're never interesting. There's got to be an internal struggle, the duality is important to find.

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

Because, also the world of showbiz is not just black and white, good and bad.

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

No one is all good or all bad, and there's many different ways to go about your life.

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

The old world was good guys and bad guys. The new world is gray guys.

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

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.

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.

Sometimes there are no good guys. There are no bad guys. It seems like everybody is in the middle.

None of us are good or evil, and that frustrates us because we want to see others as wearing a white hat or black hat. My hat is grey.

I look forward to parts that have a dimension or depth to them. This makes it interesting for me to do and the audience to watch. Whether he's a chocolate boy die hard romantic or a gangster with swag, every good has a little bad and every bad has a little good in them.

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.

It is difficult to portray grey characters because there is a very thin line between being nasty and slightly negative.

I like ambiguity. I think it's so much more interesting to play than an overtly good or an overtly evil person.

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.

What 'True Blood' does really well is that it balances on the line between good and evil - you blur the distinction between the two.

I tend to look for the good in bad people and the bad in good people, to make them human. 'Cause I don't think that people generally are that black and white. Maybe in movie-land they can be... but that isn't necessarily all there is.

Nobody is all good or all bad.