Rich Moore Quotes

It's interesting sometimes when an audience can empathize with a villain.

I find the trick to playing a villain is that you can't be bad for the sake of being bad. It has to be rooted in some sort of heartbreak.

If you don't care for the villain, if you don't love him and hate him at the same time, then he's just boring.

If you can make a character likable that's not very nice, that's the challenge of the job.

I thought that would be kind of cool, to make a bad guy look sympathetic.

I love to make even villains people you can relate to. When you find out who did it, I think you almost like the person, which is not easy to do.

It seems to me that most characters, in anything, are flawed in some way, just like most people. You look for the good in the flawed people and vice versa, and then try and make them appealing in some way.

Nobody's really unsympathetic, I think. People do good and bad things. If a character's totally unsympathetic, they're not real and I'm not interested. Even the real monsters have to have a spark of something you can relate to.

Villains are fun. I think the important thing in playing them is that they don't see themselves as villains. It lets you be a little more expansive.

In the best works of fiction, there's no mustache-twirling villain. I try to write shows where even the bad guy's got his reasons.

It's fun playing the villain now and again; villains are so simple, and you don't have to worry about the audience loving you.

I can't help slightly falling in love with every character I write about. And I quite like writing about people who are vilified.

You hope that when you're playing someone possibly unsympathetic that you can bring them something redeeming, something people can hang onto.

At the end of the day, what I try to bring to villainous characters is a sense of humanity.

Good characters don't believe they're bad. As long as you as an actor believe in them and try to understand them, it's not hard to have empathy and sympathy.

We seek to craft characters who inspire empathy: characters our audience will care for and, as a result, will care about what happens to them and thus will share the journey we have charted. A story, after all, is the character's journey.

I love storytelling. I love characters that are complicated and layered, real people, that you see why they do what they do.

In general, I am more interested in the darker characters when I watch or read stories.

I'm trying to make really flawed characters that have got redeeming features so people can say, 'I don't really like that character, but I can understand a bit where they've come from.'

The most important thing for me in an action sequence is, you understand the characters' intention and the challenges the characters are going to have to face: what the character story is within the action sequence.

As an actor, you don't really have a say or a voice in what the conversation of the show is going to be. So, as an actor, I'm just trying to make sense of why the character is making these choices, and somehow, in that way, you can sympathize or root, at least not detest, what this person is doing. That's, at least, my job in telling that story.

I'm very glad people love 'Breaking Bad,' but the harder character to write is the good character that's as interesting and as engaging as the bad guy.

I have a tendency to think that when you portray baddies in movies, they come out more human than good guys.

You can't play a guy who's just a snake, because what do you draw on?

Establish character - otherwise, it is difficult to connect with what is frightening.