Peter Gould Quotes

For 'Breaking Bad,' people were with Walter White for 99% of that show, even though that guy is a monster.

All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.

My books are never about the crimes. They are about how the characters react to the crimes.

I mean, I love Walter White.

I'm not a god - I do bad things.

I did steal socks, but I got caught... don't shoplift, anyone - don't do it! You're just gonna get caught.

I once stole a book. It was really just the once, and at the time I called it borrowing. It was 1970, and the book, I could see by its lack of date stamps, had been lying unappreciated on the shelves of my convent school library since its publication in 1945.

The thing that intrigued me about 'Breaking Bad' from day one was the idea of taking a character and transforming him.

If you look at 'Breaking Bad,' nothing lacks.

If I had killed Crow off I can think of least six novels I would never have written, 400,000 words' worth of very necessary experience.

The world, as transformed by this creative deed, is better than it would have been had all else remained the same, but had that deed of treason not been done at all.

'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.

Begin thus from the first act, and proceed; and, in conclusion, at the ill which thou hast done, be troubled, and rejoice for the good.

The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.

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

Even a burglar hesitates to go back for more.

The majority of comic book villains are pure evil, but Curt Connors is an exception. Curt Connors is a good man who initially wants to save the world, but he gets hungry and greedy and reckless, and he pays the price for that.

A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast.

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

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

I like characters who have faults. I'm drawn to darker people.

In 'Breaking Bad,' we have a lead character who definitely finds himself in a situation he would never have expected to find himself in normally.

It's fun to play a character who lives on the edge, who is an ethical and moral mess, and is paying the price for some of his actions.

When you're playing the good guy, you want to find the dirty parts - and when you're playing the bad guy, you want to find the vulnerability.

I can tell you that good people do bad things.