Matt Vella Quotes

The older I get the more I realize there's no real good guys or real bad guys, and I'm curious about how the good guys got good and how the bad guys got bad.

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

One of the things that I've always appreciated about the 'X-Men' style of storytelling versus other Marvel stories is how fluid the line between good and bad and right and wrong is.

To see the line between being good and bad is really thin. It's not easy for anyone, not the manager, the players or the staff.

I don't believe in good people and bad people.

The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

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

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 don't think anybody's all good or all bad.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

I have an interest in understanding evil. Who is the bad guy - the vampire who kills people and sucks their blood, or the survivalists who kill people to save their own lives? Is evil merely a creation of people? Or is there an evil nature? Or is it in the eye of the beholder? I really like these questions.

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

I've yet to meet a person in my life who doesn't have some moral ambiguity.

Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.

I'm no angel, but I'm no monster, either.

The world is made up of good and evil, and everybody has their own take, and everybody thinks they are on the good side, and a very few, select group of us will admit that we come from the dark side.

Our errors and our controversies, in the sphere of morality, arise sometimes from looking on men as though they could be altogether bad, or altogether good.

What 'True Blood' does really well is that it balances on the line between good and evil - you blur the distinction between the two.

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.

'Evil' is quite a blanket term. People aren't the demonic characters we would like them to be sometimes.

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

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

I like to show the grey area in all my characters.

Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.

Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to find the good in the bad people that you portray and the bad in the good.