Chris Avellone Quotes

I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.

I think actually any morality system that rewards only the extremes is a flawed system. Players don't approach life that way, they don't approach games that way, and they shouldn't be trained to approach games that way. They shouldn't be in the mode where, "I've got to choose every good option." They should just play the game. And they should get equal consequences or rewards for that, that are different from the extremes.

Normal people, who can be good people but do bad things, are very interesting to me, and people that never get a parking ticket or never do a bad thing in their lives can be really dangerous.

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

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

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.

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.

Life - the way it really is - is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.

Choices of right or wrong are not presented to you in black and white. If they were, I'm sure most people would choose white.

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.

I do not believe in the concept of good and evil in my personal life, in the real world. I just don't believe it. I never try to judge.

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

A man is not good or bad for one action.

There is but one right, and the possibilities of wrong are infinite.

The older I get the more I realize there's no real good guys or real bad guys, and I'm curious about how the good guys got good and how the bad guys got bad.

I don't believe in good human beings, but I believe you can have structures that make it easier to make the right choice or the wrong choice.

I don't believe so much in good and evil.

I don't believe that there are two sides to a story when it's a matter of right versus wrong. It just doesn't work that way.

You can't play a bad person; you can only be a person who does bad things for the right reasons.

To be a utilitarian means that you judge actions as right or wrong in accordance with whether they have good consequences. So you try to do what will have the best consequences for all of those affected.

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

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

I think that unless you can take judgments of right and wrong like an automaton, you must have emotions because that is our only way of moral guidance.

We don't have some message from God that gives us a list of what's good and what's not good. Obviously, we have to make our own flawed judgments about each thing.