Character Quote by Robert Zemeckis

Because I'm a filmmaker at heart, I know a villain can't be too humanized and the audience can't empathize with him too much.

— Sharlto Copley

What always leads me in terms of my movies are characters.

— Tony Scott

If you are a writer/director, the [movie] characters are a part of yourself.

— Juan Diego Solanas

Yet as a director, I don't feel you have to identify with your characters as a requirement to make a movie.

— David Fincher

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 didn't set out to be a villain in film. I'm a character actor, and if my first movie was a comedy, I could…

— William Zabka

I can always tell when a filmmaker doesn't care about his or her characters; they just care about setting them up to kill them…

— Drew Goddard

This I realized very late, that villain remains villain and are never able to become artists. We are never counted as actors and always…

— Mukesh Rishi

I've played an awful lot of people that other people would call villains, but that isn't a very helpful attitude to have if you're…

— Ian Mckellen

No actor can play a villain if they don't sympathise with him or her - otherwise the character just becomes a two-dimensional caricature.

— Katie McGrath

When you're writing a story or an actor playing a role, you should never think of your characters as heroes or villains. You have…

— Morgan Neville

I can't be the villain that I play in the movies.

— Rahul Dev