Tom Weston-Jones Quotes

Everybody has a dark side. It's just we are very in touch with it.

We've all got darkness inside us. And I've got quite a lot of darkness.

The literary story is a story that deals with the complicated human heart with an honest tolerance for the ambiguity in which we live. No good guys, no bad guys, just guys: that is, people bearing up in the crucible of their days and certainly not always - if ever - capable of articulating their condition.

I'm interested in people's darker side, the ones that aren't easy and well balanced. The cracks.

I think we all have a little dark side we keep under wraps.

If we are completely honest with ourselves, everyone has a dark side to their personalities.

I think that there's a hidden darkness in all of us!

I try genuinely, when I'm playing a character, to not judge them and just to inhabit someone as how one sees them. That being said, you also want to make sure that you don't blur the edges of people too much because humans are naughty and complicated beings.

If you're going to play human beings, and you're going to play them three-dimensionally, you have to show every side of them.

I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.

Nobody's all good or bad, and nobody's all light or dark. Every human being has so many different aspects and facets to them. And there can be something noble and something really dark and dangerous going on in a person all at the same time.

Chekhov understood that people are mysterious and can't be reduced to what we nowadays call 'motivation.'

I think we're very complicated and we're capable of all kinds of things, and movies don't reflect that.

I'm drawn to villains that are three-dimensional and raw and that I can kind of see in my own life.

I like playing people with a dark side.

I think we all have a kind of dark side, and that's what keeps life - and characters - interesting. That's one of the things that I'm drawn to write about again and again, the secrets we keep and how they shape us.

We're all complex human beings, and if some of that complexity shows through, I think it's advantageous for the movie.

I have never played a role in which someone's dark side shouldn't be explored.

I definitely have a dark side of me that can be pretty vicious... as we all do.

I'm just writing about people. People are dark and complicated. I'm trying to tell the truth; that's all that I do.

One of the things I constantly think about as a writer is the way in which people are full of contradictions - there's all this contradictory information inside a human personality.

There have to be moments when you glimpse something decent, something life-affirming even in the most twisted character. That's where the real art lies. See, I always suspect characters who are painted as lovely, decent human beings. I would always question where the darkness lies.

I think many people have contradictions to them and I love characters that deal with those contradictions.

I feel like the so-called bad guys are never totally bad. I guess it's the closest thing I can do to reality: people act nice but nobody really is nice. We all have to balance that with something dark.

With all the main characters that I write, it's always very important to me that they have good and bad aspects of their personality. It's important to me that they're complicated and that they're human.