Damien Chazelle Quotes

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

We do things for good reasons that are bad.

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.

People can do bad things for good reasons, or for what they think are good reasons.

Gee, I wish that life were so black and white that you can't think of a single person who, you know, a good person who has done bad things.

If you look in real life, it is very hard to describe people as good people, bad people, heroes or villains. People aren't bad people. They all have their justifications.

The thematic bucket of vomit that I've been chained to since I was about 9 is the moral complexity of anti-heroism. I have always been interested in good people who do bad things for understandable reasons.

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.

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

I love the gray area between right and wrong.

I don't want to play a bad guy who doesn't have a bit of good in him.

There are few things wholly evil, or wholly good. Almost every thing, especially of government policy, is an inseparable compound of the two.

… the existence of bad guys in these countries doesn’t mean that their opponents are all good guys

I don't think villains think they are villains.

The world is made up of good and evil, and everybody has their own take, and everybody thinks they are on the good side, and a very few, select group of us will admit that we come from the dark side.

Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad things.

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

In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.

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

Everyone spends their lives trying to balance their world between good and evil.

There are many movies which come with an attitude of black and white. I am good and you are bad. And there are many movies that are also trying to see the reality as it is or to discover what really is behind the character or events.

The nice thing about 'Farscape' is that you got to be the good guy and still do the bad guy things.

Well, you know, in any novel you would hope that the hero has someone to push back against, and villains - I find the most interesting villains those who do the right things for the wrong reasons, or the wrong things for the right reasons. Either one is interesting. I love the gray area between right and wrong.

I've never seen any character I've ever played as a bad guy or a good guy.