Vikram Bhatt Quotes

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

Generally speaking, I would say villains are a little more exciting to play, but if you get a flawed hero, then that can almost be just as amazing.

In all our pictures, we had an antagonist who becomes the good guy, and the underdog fulfills his quest.

If the reader cares, I don't think it matters so much whether your hero is in fact an anti-hero.

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

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.

If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day.

A lot of the time, a moral compass is all that separates a hero from being a villain; otherwise, the two are very much the same. Both are generally the richest and most complex characters, and they get to have all the fun. I guess it's those types of roles that I ultimately gravitate towards.

I look for characters that are extremely flawed and the anti-hero.

A lot of my characters are anti-heroes that became heroes.

Nobody wants to play the antihero.

You go back to look over the body of my work, and there are no archetypal villains in my books.

I don't think there are any negative roles anymore. I think we can aptly put such characters under 'anti-hero' tag.

If someone has to be the villain, I'll be the villain. I have no problem with it. The movies still say, 'Starring... the villain.'

'3:10 to Yuma' was one that I just kept on talking and thinking about after reading it. And I think the reason is because, like in most Westerns, you have the very clear-cut bad-guy/good-guy, however, as the movie progresses, you kind of see that it's a very fine line that divides these two.

Perfect heroines, like perfect heroes, aren't relatable, and if you can't put yourself in the protagonist's shoes, not only will they not inspire you, but the book will be pretty boring.

I've never considered myself a leading man, don't look like one, don't want to be one.

For me, one of the most beautiful and rewarding aspects of serial reality TV is that characters can move freely along a spectrum of heroism and villainy.

I played characters with villainous aspect. But out-and-out villain? No.

I love Jon Snow's character.

Everyone deserves to be the hero of a novel.

The only problem with the way they do my character is that they have her get redeemed too early.

I've always wanted to play the villain. But the young girl is never the villain.

The most unrealistic thing I've ever read in comics is when some group of characters calls themselves the Brotherhood of Evil or the Masters of Evil. I don't believe any character believes their goals to be truly evil.

In any character you do, especially something like 'Watchmen,' if you're gonna do this, you're gonna do this right. I'm fighting for the Comedian every step of the way; there's not even a question, Adrian is a scumbag.