Takashi Miike Quotes

I don't believe in anti-heroes. Duke Wayne played a mean guy but never an anti-hero.

Nobody wants to play the antihero.

I feel like life is much greater than a hero or a villain: there's good people that sometimes make mistakes.

People have their complexities. They have their heroic moments and their villainous moments, too.

Heroes aren't supposed to do bad things. That's what villains are for. So either the good supersedes the bad, or the bad makes it impossible to remember the good. We don't like it when such duality exists in one person. We don't want to know our heroes are human.

I think all of us have a hero and a villain in us.

There's a story in 'Kabu Kabu' called 'Bakasi Man' where I got to explore the mind of a 'bad man.' It was fun.

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.

In 'The X-Men' world, one can be a hero one day and a villain the next, which means there's a constant battle for a character's soul that's dynamic. I find that really fascinating.

There's no way to explain to a child that the line between good and evil isn't nearly as black and white as a fairy tale would lead you to believe. That an ordinary person can turn into a villain, under the right circumstances. That sometimes we dragon slayers do things we aren't proud of.

There's something about the superheroes and the idea behind their relationship with humans, whether it's a metaphor for the better part of ourselves, or the more flawed part of ourselves. So it seems to really be our own pop-culture version of Greek mythology.

The bad guys are the best parts.

I'm always much more interested in flawed heroes than in perfect ones.

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

I think there's a bit of the devil in everybody. There's a bit of a priest in everybody, too, but I enjoyed playing the devil more. He was more fun.

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 have always found myself playing the hero, but I love villains. Villains have more fun.

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

For mine, the villains of the piece were always important. In a traditional sense, that's always an important role.

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.

'Breaking Bad' is great at blurring the line between good and evil. It makes you feel compassion for Walter White so you're with him throughout this descent into the darker parts of his psyche. The bad that we're capable of is all circumstantial.

'Star Wars' is mythology. It's like Greek mythology or Shakespeare. It's the story of good versus evil over a very long span of time. The storytelling is universal and timeless.

We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.

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.

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.