Joseph Brodsky Quotes

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

Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.

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

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.

It's as boring to see a completely evil villain as it is to see a completely good guy.

There are heroes in evil as well as in good.

Sometimes there are no good guys. There are no bad guys. It seems like everybody is in the middle.

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

I don't believe novels should carry an obvious message. I don't want to write characters you can immediately say are good or bad; as in life, most people are a mixture.

In the world we make good as evil and evil as good.

I tend to look for the good in bad people and the bad in good people, to make them human. 'Cause I don't think that people generally are that black and white. Maybe in movie-land they can be... but that isn't necessarily all there is.

It's good to play something that's black and white, and a guy that sees right and wrong. I've never played a character like that.

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.

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.

There is no possible source of evil except good.

I don't think good and evil are polarized.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

I like to show the grey area in all my characters.

It's much less interesting as an actor playing someone who's purely good or purely evil.

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.

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

I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.

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

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

It is the fact of life that a truth emerges out of a conflict between two wrongs.