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I feel like, sometimes, characters that are just good and nice can seem boring or uninteresting.

Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.

I've found that the people who play villains are the nicest people in the world, and people who play heroes are jerks. It's like people who play villains work out all their problems on screen, and then they're just really wonderful people.

People who act against their own best interests are interesting characters.

I find nice people kind of boring.

I'm much nicer then all my characters, let's just put it that way.

You have to create characters - certainly in series TV - who people engage with. They don't have to be nice; you don't have to agree with them. But they do have to be compulsively watchable and believable and human, and you want to know what happens to them.

It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.

If you can make a character likable that's not very nice, that's the challenge of the job.

For an author, the nice characters aren't much fun. What you want are the screwed up characters. You know, the characters that are constantly wondering if what they are doing is the right thing, characters that are not only screwed up but are self-tapping screws. They're doing it for themselves.