Jeannette Walls Quotes

The eternal conflict of good and the best with bad and the worst is on.

Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.

In the present world, this technological, psychotic, politicised, nonsensical world, you have to believe that the good guys are going to win! That evil will be banished somehow!

To put the point sharply: If an informer in the French underground who sent a friend to the torture chambers of the Gestapo was equally a victim, then there can be no right or wrong in life that I understand.

Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Truth stood on one side and Ease on the other; it has often been so.

My optimism holds that the good guys eventually come out on top.

There's gotta be a villain; there's gotta be a good guy.

It's not that Good doesn't triumph over Evil, it's that the point spread is too small.

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

War is good when good survives and evil is crushed. If you don't crush evil then evil will get you.

We like Batman - we understand him, we suffer with him. On the other hand, we want to be Superman. But they're conflicting philosophies. Let's bring them together in one movie and see how we, as an audience, wrestle with our inner demons.

I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.

The most satisfying thrillers send ordinary people into battle against the forces of evil - otherwise known as greed, ego, rage, fear and laziness - and bring them out bloodied but whole.

It was an hour of sanity with the good guys winning, a situation where the world was right side up.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

It is not truth that matters, but victory.

A hero can only be as good as the bad guy.

There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.

Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.

We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.

Thrillers provide the reader with a safe escape into a dangerous world where the stakes are as high as can be imagined with unpredictable outcomes. It's a perfect genre in which to explore hard issues of good and evil, a mirror that allows the reader to see both the good and not so good in themselves.

There is a contest old as Eden, which still goes on - the conflict between right and wrong, between error and truth. In this conflict every human being has a part.

We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.