Stephanie Savage Quotes

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

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

Good action films - not crap, but good action films - are really morality plays. They deal in modern, mythic culture.

There are good characters and bad characters.

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

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

A bad guy always assumes he's going to win, whereas the good guy has to struggle with, what if I lose?, and the audience wants to struggle with him.

Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice.

I was looking to explore the theme of good and evil, so what better inspiration than the comics? I'd developed a relationship with DC and Warner Bros. when I donated a sculpture of Catwoman to the 'We Can Be Heroes' campaign a few years ago. That's what started it.

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

I've played quite a lot of crooks and killers, and that's quite interesting. Then Dumbledore is the complete opposite, isn't he? He's a nice old man.

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.

I approach serious subjects, and I like to have the good guys win and have the parents among the good guys.

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.

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

No one is really playing the good guy, but if they want to play the bad guy, I'm ready to play the super hero and take these guys out.

Evil has always been here since the world began. Good is what is difficult. It is a work of every day.

I only help the superheroes, I don't help the villains.

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

Well, you need the villain. If you don't have a villain, the good guy can stay home.

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

The Lone Ranger is going to be one of those iconic characters that never rides off into the sunset. We need heroes like him - an underdog who fights the good fight, doesn't kill, and has some serious mojo when the chips are down.

Most superheroes are painted with a specific moral objective that makes them who they are. And that moral objective influences everything they do, so there's an expectation for what you're going to see out of a certain character.

'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.

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.