Quotes About Perspective

And still, villains are also superheroes; they just fight for the other side, but theyre still superheroes.

I think Shakespeare really got it. He was the first one to introduce psychology to villains and give them a real point of view.

Villains never know they are villains in a picture so I play this like I'm the nicest guy in the world.

It is much more fun to write about villains then heroes. The villains are the ones that think out the scheme, and the heroes just kind of come along for the ride.

You don't play villains like they are villains. You play them like you know exactly where they are coming from. Which hopefully you do.

I have always found myself playing the hero, but I love villains. Villains have more fun.

I don't necessarily prefer playing villains. I know a lot of people say they are more fun, but if the scriptwriter has done their work well, you can find something realistic in a villain and find the mistakes in a hero - it's all down to the writing.

Villains are fun. I think the important thing in playing them is that they don't see themselves as villains. It lets you be a little more expansive.

I don't think villains think they are villains.

I always tried to play the bad guys as guys who didn't know they were bad guys. There are villains we run into all the time, but they don't think they are doing anything wrong. If they do, they think they are cunning and smart. When people break laws and ethical rules, they justify it in their own terms.

I don't like villains who are just villains. People who are just there to be bad - ugh - so annoying.

You go back to look over the body of my work, and there are no archetypal villains in my books.

Somebody - and I'm going to guess it was Hitchcock - once said that everyone has their reasons. If you remember that, as a writer, you'll write better than average villains.

One of the things about having played a lot of villains is... I don't have the same experience of someone who maybe has been a leading man since they were 22 and therefore looks at certain things in a character to romanticize themselves. I actually very much embrace the bad stuff.

There's this artistic drive or something in me that impels me to sympathize with villains, but it's maybe not a great impulse as someone who wants to do activism as well.

We want our villains and antagonists to have distinct motivations.

Look, I don't think villains are interesting when you can't tell where they're coming from.

A lot of the best villains are the ones that think they are right. That think they are the good guy.

I am not necessarily my clients. I will seek to defend them, to vindicate their rights but that doesn't mean that I necessarily think that what they did was proper.

I hope that every film I make has something to offer in the area of making people feel either vindicated or different in terms of who they are.

If you're sitting in a place like Martha's Vineyard, I don't think you're going to write a song about a ski resort.

When I went into the computer shop to change my last laptop, the 19-year-old kid behind the counter looked at my six-year-old model and described it as 'vintage.' 'Vintage?' I wanted to scream. 'Son, I've got shirts older than you! I own underpants that have seen more of the world!'

I hardly ever listen to any of our old stuff now. Once the songs have been recorded and put on to vinyl they become someone else's entertainment, not mine.

Look, I support gay marriage from a policy/voting booth perspective. I also happen to think that gay marriage bans like Prop 8 are violations of the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection clause. And I suspect including gay marriage under the umbrella of 'marriage' will strengthen families.