David Lyons Quotes

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

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

What 'Twilight Zone' did was show we all have a great capacity for good and evil.

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

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.

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

I always look at films as real stories with real people in real situations. That's why I struggle with the whole notion of calling someone the 'good guy' or the 'bad guy', because I think we all have potential to do good things and all have the potential to do bad things.

We were living in a tumultuous time, when the world was upside down. Freeman produced a show that was black and white, the good guys versus the bad guys.

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.

Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.

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

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.

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

If this isn’t good versus evil, what is?

One of the things that I've always appreciated about the 'X-Men' style of storytelling versus other Marvel stories is how fluid the line between good and bad and right and wrong is.

To me, Punisher is pretty black and white. He's very simple, and at the same time, he's very complex. I don't know why I think I understand the guy, but I feel I do.

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.

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.

We don't live in a world that's black and white.

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

I want to show people how there are variations and different interpretations of good and evil.

The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.

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