Inner Justification Quotes

No one is an unjust villain in his own mind. Even - perhaps even especially those who are the worst of us. Some of the cruelest tyrants in history were motivated by noble ideals, or made choices they would call "hard but necessary" for the good of their nation. We're all the hero of our own story.

Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.

I am aware that no man is a villain in his own eyes.

All action in theatre must have inner justification, be logical, coherent, and real.

Usually people who are evil don't see themselves as evil.

I don't think any evil character thinks that they are evil - they think they have insight that people don't.

You have to imbue the characters with their own sort of feeling of justification and morality. Everyone has that, whether we see them as evil or not. So I try to bring the characters to life by making them likable or lovable, in the sense that they can be, at least to themselves.