Black Quote by Ken Follett

I write flawed characters. Ones that do not always make the best decisions and are driven by ambition or lust. They are not black…

— Anonymous

I think the idea, first and foremost, is to understand that people may label these characters as villains, but at the end of the…

— Edi Gathegi

Villains are mostly just people villainized by circumstance

— Chris Colfer

I've got everything against likable characters. Likable characters are usually completely forgettable, and we don't really care. I think we love villains... precisely because…

— Lawrence Osborne

I like characters who have faults. I'm drawn to darker people.

— Hayley Atwell

Well, I think there are no villains in this world. There are just misunderstood heroes.

— Tom Hiddleston

Villains are kind of hard to really know on a personal level when you see them as mean, unsensitive-type people.

— Wilt Chamberlain

Writers must be fair and remember even bad guys (most of them, anyway) see themselves as good—they are the heroes of their own lives.…

— Stephen King

That's the thing about writing for a lot of the villains is that, as a writer, you kind of have to put the best…

— Paul Dini

The characters that have greys are the more interesting characters. The hero who sometimes crosses the line and the villain who sometimes doesn't are…

— Geoff Johns

I suppose my understanding of villains is that they're just people who are infected by all of the darker instincts - that they haven't…

— Tom Hiddleston

I like flawed characters, and I like seeing people who are supposed to be not villains but antagonists. There are elements to them, which…

— Taika Waititi