John Wozniak Quotes

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

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

In most shows, there's usually a hero or a protagonist, and even if there are multiple heroes or protagonists, most shows try and make it so you really always know who's the good guy and who's the bad guy.

A properly balanced story provides an equal representation of the negative and positive attributes of, I could say the world, but it's actually a being. 'Harry Potter''s a good example. So Harry's the hero, right. But he's tainted with evil. There's a dark and a light in every bit of that narrative. It's well balanced.

Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child's eye - it is very beautiful.

The eternal conflict of good and the best with bad and the worst is on.

One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

A friend of mine who is in the publishing business knew I was writing a book, and he said, 'Have you said anything yet about the good guy? Because I know you spend so much time with the bad guys.' Because they're fun. So then you have to make the good guy fun, in order to compete. That's the challenge.

I think at this point in my life, I'd like to play more good guys than bad guys.

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

It's good to play something that's black and white, and a guy that sees right and wrong. I've never played a character like that.

Goodness is something that makes us serene and content; it is magnificent. Those who are not good are evil.

'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.

I think a good story's a good story and a good character's a good character.

My mother never, ever told me about evilness. She only saw the beautiful things... she wanted to protect me from it.

I will always have a soft spot for 'East of the Sun, West of the Moon,' which I discovered just at the age when I was beginning to enjoy the darkness in fairy tales but still wanted a story where the good guys win.

I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.

I think that the difference between 'The Sopranos' and the shows that came before it was that it was really personal. There had been a lot of dramas, a lot of really good ones, a lot of really bad ones, but they were always franchise shows about cops, or doctors, or lawyers. They weren't about the writer himself.

This is a struggle of good and evil. And we're the good.

I love intricate plotting and exciting twists, but I realize more that people enjoy a good story in a simple, focused way.

I didn't want to write a grown-up account of Gallipoli. I wanted to find out what would happen if I looked at Gallipoli through the eyes of an innocent.

Children are born with their own optimism. They have a clarity and a simplicity that we can only wish for.

When you're not playing the hero of the story, then you have to know that you're always a foil for the good guy. I love playing that. I think that's always an interesting place to be.

Everyone deserves to be the hero of a novel.

I firmly believe that a story is only as good as the villain.