Ted Demme Quotes

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

I tend to look for the good in bad people and the bad in good people, to make them human. 'Cause I don't think that people generally are that black and white. Maybe in movie-land they can be... but that isn't necessarily all there is.

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.

We always want to find good and bad guys, and I don't believe in that.

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.

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

Life isn't one-dimensional. The world isn't simply divided into good versus evil. I think we're all capable of both.

There's no good guys and bad guys.

The way I look at humanity, I don't think there's good guys or bad guys. We're all potentially bad and potentially good.

The beauty of the characters on 'Justified' is that all the human beings that are written are all flawed. Even with the good guys, you see darkness surface.

The bad guys don't always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure.

What makes 'The Wire' a beautiful story is how true to life it is. In other shows, you have a good guy and a bad guy. In 'The Wire,' bad guys are trying to be good, good guys are doing bad. You have real life. The people who do bad get bad things done to them.

The old world was good guys and bad guys. The new world is gray guys.

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

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

Everyone spends their lives trying to balance their world between good and evil.

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

In the world we make good as evil and evil as good.

There is the moral spectrum in 'Fargo,' and you see it in other Coen brothers movies, where you have a very good character on one end and a very bad character on the other.

The nice thing about 'Farscape' is that you got to be the good guy and still do the bad guy things.

No human being in history was all good or all bad, or all black or all white.

Are there any good guys on 'Prison Break?' I suppose there might be. I can't honestly say whether I'm a good guy or a bad guy or I'm a good guy in wolf's clothing or sheep's clothing.

It's as boring to see a completely evil villain as it is to see a completely good guy.

In general, I think writing characters, no one is 100 percent good or bad, and certainly, the bad characters never think they're bad themselves. Even the worst characters don't feel like they're bad guys on the inside.

As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.