Better Quote by Joe Morton

I think every villain basically thinks that he or she is doing something to make his world, or the world in general, a better…

— Joe Morton

With villains you always have to understand what motivates them. Most people don't just think they're evil. They believe or know they are doing…

— Marv Wolfman

If life has taught me one thing, it's that there are no villains. Only people, doing their best.

— Joe Abercrombie

I understand being the villain is what people like. People play to that. They want to know about the villain.

— Dwyane Wade

In reality, there are very few villains who view themselves as villains. They just have a certain agenda at a certain time.

— Michael Jai White

It's never very useful to see your character as a villain. You have to play them the way they see themselves.

— Lucy Lawless

I don't do villains often enough. There are two approaches: give them sympathetic, reasonable motivations for doing the most unspeakable things, or get inside…

— Charles Stross

That's to me what always is compelling about villains. I am much more interested in how they think than in what they even do.

— Scott Derrickson

No villain thinks of himself as a villain, and that's the approach I always take.

— John Lithgow

What makes a good villain is someone who doesn't just challenge the hero but comes organically out of that character's history and circumstances.

— Christopher Priest

I don't like the word "villain." It's too reductive. Calling someone a villain makes it too easy to ignore all the factors that went…

— Bryce Pinkham

I think that if a villain's done right, you don't necessarily have to like their actions, but you have to understand them.

— Kate Herron