Jeph Loeb Quotes

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

We like Batman - we understand him, we suffer with him. On the other hand, we want to be Superman. But they're conflicting philosophies. Let's bring them together in one movie and see how we, as an audience, wrestle with our inner demons.

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

I think all of us have a hero and a villain in us.

One of the reasons why people - particularly young people - love action movies is because what they are really looking for is justice.

A hero can only be as good as the bad guy.

I'm digging Batman. I'm digging that balance, that duality. He's always on the edge and trying to balance himself within the rules of what's lawful and justice, and being Bruce Wayne and being Batman.

Inside each of us, there is the seed of both good and evil. It's a constant struggle as to which one will win. And one cannot exist without the other.

We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.

I'm thrilled to be taking over Green Arrow. What I adore about the Arrow is his recklessness. He'll shoot off on an impulse, dispatch someone if they deserve it; his heroism is instinctive.

Heroes are defined by their villains - Batman is nothing if he doesn't have Two-Face.

All stories boil down to good vs. evil, and that's what the archetypal American Western was.

I love that duality of Wonder Woman: that she both wants peace and means peace, but when push comes to shove and someone needs to be put down like a dog, that's what she would be willing to do.

The world of superheroes is black and white; the world of monsters is not. Sometimes you need evil to fight evil.

Where there is a hero, there is always a villain.

From the days of Cain and Abel, we know all too well there will always be evil. But that evil shouldn't take away our freedoms.

Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad things.

In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.

There are good characters and bad characters.

We all wake up in the morning wanting to live our lives the way we know we should. But we usually don't, in small ways. That's what makes a character like Batman so fascinating. He plays out our conflicts on a much larger scale.

Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood.

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

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

I don't have an endgame. My game is to take on any bad guys I see out there. And do the best I can until they put me under the carpet.