Sam Esmail Quotes

I love the gray area between right and wrong.

In 'Maatr,' we do not justify taking the law into our hands. That's not the right thing to do. We are not promoting that.

Really, no-one is bad except for serial killers and dictators.

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

The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

We always want to find good and bad guys, and I don't believe in that.

I find the idea of vigilante justice very attractive. I like the idea that the murderer decides that this person has gone too far, and nothing will happen to him unless she does something to stop him.

My feeling is that the hero has now been defined by phrases like the odious one that we were all raised with - crimes does not pay. Of course it pays, you schmuck. That's not why we don't do it. We don't do it because it is wrong.

I don't think good and evil are polarized.

The thing about 'Dark Knight' is its objective is to set Batman into your world, so that you can imagine the moral dilemmas he faces are exactly parallel to moral dilemmas that you would face in this world, today, if you were out there fighting crime dressed like a bat.

Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.

My idea of what's good and bad and right and wrong is maybe greyer than most, and I like writing about that.

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.

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

Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest.

As long as the law exists, there will be morality.

We should not be simply fighting evil in the name of good, but struggling against the certainties of people who claim always to know where good and evil are to be found.

There's a gigantic gray area between good moral behavior and outright felonious activities. I call that the Weasel Zone and it's where most of life happens.

I'm no angel, but I'm no monster, either.

Because he's the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So we'll hunt him. Because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's a silent guardian, a watchful protector. A dark knight.

You can't watch 'Daredevil' or 'Jessica Jones' or the Marvel films and not be aware that the villain has to be awesome. I've always wanted to have more space. And the scope, morally, is more broad for the villain than the hero.

While 'Django Unchained' presents a morally stark universe, where people do and say evil things with no remorse, it also luxuriates in the license that such evil provides.

I don't believe in good people and bad people.

What is right is not always the same as what is legal

Indeed men too often take upon themselves in the prosecution of their revenge to set the example of doing away with those general laws to which all can look for salvation in adversity, instead of allowing them to subsist against the day of danger when their aid may be required