Compelling Quote by Scott Derrickson

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

I have been thinking a lot about what we see in villains, how we relate to villains, and what it is about certain villains…

— Finn Wittrock

I think all villains have something in common: they have something that they need or want very, very badly. The stakes are very high…

— Donna Murphy

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

The specific influences on villains to me is, I love the villains who are really hyper-smart. When at the end of the movie you…

— John Lasseter

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

— Leigh Bardugo

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

— Wilt Chamberlain

I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person - they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're…

— Russell Crowe

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

You know how great villains just believe in what they're doing? In their minds they're not villains, they're not doing anything wrong; they're just…

— Jessica Biel

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

With any villain, you have to see things from their point of view and understand that they think what they're doing will make the…

— Joe Morton