Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Quotes

I've learned a lot about good and evil. They are not always what they appear to be.

I don't think most people are all heroic or all villainous, so I find ambiguity of motivations to be a natural human condition.

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

I don't believe in bad and good, I believe we are all a mix of both.

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

I like characters who are contradictory.

That's sort of what I like about this character is that he's not the good guy, he's not truly the bad guy.

Bad people sometimes do good things, and good people do really bad things or do something the audience disagrees with.

Is it good or bad?" she asked Issa. The wrong question, she knew. She just couldn't help herself. "It's both, sweet girl," said Issa. "like everything.

There will never be a perfectly good or bad world, because the very idea is a contradiction in terms.

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.

There's nothing in the world that isn't good, bad, and indifferent.

In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

Being ambivalent doesn't mean that you're a relevatist, that anything goes; it just means that you show the complexity of life. Life is always complex.

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.

I don't believe that there's a good guy and a bad guy. Unless it's like Superman or Batman, there is no good guy and bad guy.

Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.

I don't see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do.

I love the gray area between right and wrong.

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

There's no good guys and bad guys.

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

There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.

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