Tony Vincent Quotes

Look, I happen to still like really dark, dramatic, fractured characters.

We can bring to characters dark and bright sides that nobody even dreams about.

As a reader, I much prefer to read a book where people embody all kinds of ideas and everybody is making mistakes.

I love playing characters who are multilayered and multidimensional and have a darkness to them, which makes them more realistic and more fun to play.

I'm drawn towards people who have a little pathos and a little dark side, and I feel the same towards fictional characters.

I am a fan of dark movies and dark complex characters, and I love to take on a character like that.

People sometimes seem surprised because often, you know, you know, there's a lot of tortured characters in the stuff I write.

We all have dark sides to ourselves, and I want to portray that in a realistic way.

With all the main characters that I write, it's always very important to me that they have good and bad aspects of their personality. It's important to me that they're complicated and that they're human.

I think that complicated, nuanced, deep, heavy - that's the place to go. That's what makes a great show. That's what all of us deal with in life.

In general, I am more interested in the darker characters when I watch or read stories.

I like grit. I like love and death. I'm tired of irony.

Part of what's interesting about the 'Star Wars' world is, villains are complex, obviously, and they occupy, as in life, different roles within different organizations.

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.

With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.

I prefer to be a villainess. There's something a bit more delicious about their wickedness.

'Nice Guys' has darkness in it and parts that are kind of odd, but there are also parts where it's heartfelt and soulful. You can switch back and forth.

I think that people are fascinated with the stories, with human nature and the dark turns it can take.

There are heroes in evil as well as in good.

He's a man who... well, one of the great things about Shakespeare is that his characters are inconsistent, and that's something I think makes him a writer above most writers because inconsistency is what we, as people, are full of. We maybe don't see it in ourselves too often, but we are inconsistent.

I'm interested in the relationships of people. I'm interested in the darker moments within us. All those aspects of human behavior, I'm fascinated by. But in the times we're in, those are hard movies to make. So if I can do it at HBO, fine.

However, for my characters to have depth, they have to be human and complex, have both qualities and flaws, do the right things at times, and at others, things they'll regret having done and not necessarily know how to undo.

All of the Marvel characters have flaws to them; all of them have a deep humanity to them.

Do I want a character who just has the best motives and the best intentions, zero flaws, and is doing things for the right reasons? No!

I consider myself a humanist. Even if I do very dark worlds, I try to make those characters real humans as opposed to just cartoons.