Alexander Volkanovski Quotes

A bad guy always assumes he's going to win, whereas the good guy has to struggle with, what if I lose?, and the audience wants to struggle with him.

The good guy is only as strong as the bad guy.

Well, you need the villain. If you don't have a villain, the good guy can stay home.

If you can't play the good guy, sometimes you've got to play the villain.

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

A hero can only be as good as the bad guy.

I like stories of the classic hero, of good versus evil, the ones in which the good guys wear white and the bad guys wear black... and I love a good sword fight.

When you're playing the good guy, you want to find the dirty parts - and when you're playing the bad guy, you want to find the vulnerability.

Shoot the bad guys and I'll gladly sing a tune for you.

Without the villain, the hero sits at home on his couch.

In all our pictures, we had an antagonist who becomes the good guy, and the underdog fulfills his quest.

On 'CSI: NY,' the audience knew I was a really good guy, and I caught the bad guy.

The Lone Ranger is going to be one of those iconic characters that never rides off into the sunset. We need heroes like him - an underdog who fights the good fight, doesn't kill, and has some serious mojo when the chips are down.

What are movies for if not to have the good guys triumph over the bad ones?

'3:10 to Yuma' was one that I just kept on talking and thinking about after reading it. And I think the reason is because, like in most Westerns, you have the very clear-cut bad-guy/good-guy, however, as the movie progresses, you kind of see that it's a very fine line that divides these two.

I haven't spent my entire career playing the guy in the bad hat, although I have to say that the bad guy is frequently much more interesting than the good guy.

The buried code of many American films has become: If I kill you, I have won and you have lost. The instinctive ethical code of traditional Hollywood, the code by which characters like James Stewart, John Wayne and Henry Fonda lived, has been lost.

I don't think you need to go looking for the enemy. He's going to look for you.

I'm in the real world, some people try to steal from me, and I stop them, frequently, take them to court. I love a good lawsuit. It's fun.

I always felt that heroes were essentially dull. Villains were more exotic and could do more interesting things.

One of the reasons why people - particularly young people - love action movies is because what they are really looking for is justice.

Good action films - not crap, but good action films - are really morality plays. They deal in modern, mythic culture.

I'm thrilled to be taking over Green Arrow. What I adore about the Arrow is his recklessness. He'll shoot off on an impulse, dispatch someone if they deserve it; his heroism is instinctive.

I feel like there's different kinds of evil and there's different kinds of villains, and as much as I would like to be dark and playing with knives... it's not me and it's not my look.

Heroes are defined by their villains - Batman is nothing if he doesn't have Two-Face.