Marjane Satrapi Quotes

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

What makes 'The Wire' a beautiful story is how true to life it is. In other shows, you have a good guy and a bad guy. In 'The Wire,' bad guys are trying to be good, good guys are doing bad. You have real life. The people who do bad get bad things done to them.

There are the good and bad and every morrally ambiguous shade in between.

We are all the foolishness and all the crimes we did. We're also all the kindnesses we did. I hate to think of life as if we understood time. We don't understand time.

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

I feel like life is much greater than a hero or a villain: there's good people that sometimes make mistakes.

Are there any good guys on 'Prison Break?' I suppose there might be. I can't honestly say whether I'm a good guy or a bad guy or I'm a good guy in wolf's clothing or sheep's clothing.

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

As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.

'Breaking Bad' is great at blurring the line between good and evil. It makes you feel compassion for Walter White so you're with him throughout this descent into the darker parts of his psyche. The bad that we're capable of is all circumstantial.

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

No person and no character is beyond redemption, ultimately. That's the great thing about playing a character that has kind of a dark side; there's room to explore the opposite.

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

I love the gray area between right and wrong.

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.

A lot of the time, a moral compass is all that separates a hero from being a villain; otherwise, the two are very much the same. Both are generally the richest and most complex characters, and they get to have all the fun. I guess it's those types of roles that I ultimately gravitate towards.

Your characters can do the worst things on Earth - cut to a happy baby, it ends up being OK.

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

Nobody wants to play the antihero.

Mike and I are always drawn to the idea that there is light and dark inside every being, rather than the old two-dimensional trope of good versus evil.

You can't play a bad person; you can only be a person who does bad things for the right reasons.

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

Most people aren't good or bad. They're naive.

Our actions are neither so good nor so evil as our impulses.

Our errors and our controversies, in the sphere of morality, arise sometimes from looking on men as though they could be altogether bad, or altogether good.