Geoff Johns Quotes

The bad guys are not typical; they are not just bad, they are interesting. They might be good or bad.

What I always studied in screenwriting from my mentor John Glavin was that the most interesting characters are characters with shades of gray.

Very few of my characters are totally heroic or totally villainous.

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

No characters in 'Stay Close,' including the leads, are black and white. I want them to be grey. I think that makes for a much more interesting reading experience, something that will stay with you a little bit longer.

I like playing complex, interesting characters. Sometimes I don't think there's much of a strong line between right and wrong for a character. Every character is somewhere on a moral spectrum.

Kolaigaran' is not a typical hero-villain subject. We explored the other side of human nature, which is grey.

I think all interesting characters have some kind of a complex.

It is difficult to portray grey characters because there is a very thin line between being nasty and slightly negative.

I get the feeling that audiences have become mature and they understand that not every character is in black or white. There can be grey shades to it.

What is their potential for evil; what is their potential for wickedness? That's the only time that those characters become interesting to watch.

I think conflicted characters are always more interesting.

I like the characters that have some redeeming quality or if it's interesting to me in any way.

However, for my characters to have depth, they have to be human and complex, have both qualities and flaws, do the right things at times, and at others, things they'll regret having done and not necessarily know how to undo.

The beauty of Sudhir's protagonists is that they are not shown as black and white. There are various layers to the characters.

I want to play a character with grey shades.

The thing that I love about 'Scandal' is every character, it's not clear if they're good or bad. Everyone is both good and bad.

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

I loved 'Homeland' - it's such an intriguing, intelligent piece of television, and I am fascinated by them making a hero and heroine that are so odd, so flawed and so complicated. It is a programme that really draws you in.

As an actor, I'm constantly striving to find the darkness in the lighter characters and the lightness in the darker characters.

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.

I've always preferred writing about grey characters and human characters. Whether they are giants or elves or dwarves, or whatever they are, they're still human, and the human heart is still in conflict with the self.

I did a play once where a reviewer said, 'Martin Freeman's too nice to play a bad guy.' And I thought: 'Well, bad guys aren't always bad guys, you know?' When I see someone play the obvious villain, I know it's false.

Good guy' or 'bad guy', hero or anti hero; doesn't matter to me, what role I play, only the character have something magical.

I love to start characters in a place where you think you know them. We can make all kinds of assumptions about them and think they have no redeeming qualities, but like everyone, they're complex.