Aaron Ehasz Quotes

Sometimes there are good reasons to do bad things.

people do terrible things, sometimes, for the best reasons.

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.

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.

It's easy to show terrible people's behavior on screen, and we all just kind of nod and go, 'Isn't that terrible.' It's more interesting when you can show terrible behavior in the interest of something good.

We do things for good reasons that are bad.

There are people who do what they believe is right, but as they say, 'The road to hell is paved with good intentions.'

People do bad things, but that doesn't mean they don't have other colors or qualities.

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

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.

The idea that people do very bad things for sometimes very good reasons, feels reasons.

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

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.

I'm not sure why I'm so drawn to heroes who do bad things and to villains who think they're the good guys, but I do find that moral ambiguity and conflict makes for great characters.

I feel really ambiguous about the psychology of people trying to do good in the world.

Invite characters of surprising and moral character, or at least those who grapple with what is right or those who make decisions that shock.

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

Sometimes the right thing gets done for the wrong reason and sometimes, unfortunately, the wrong thing gets done for the right reason.

The idea that we cause harm by doing what we perceive to be the right thing, that's another theme that interests me. Because most people don't intend to cause harm, they cause harm by doing the right thing - in their mind.

Who is to say who is the villain and who is the hero? Probably the dictionary.

Where great evils lie on all sides, it is very difficult to follow the best counsel.

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

Good people do bad things.

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