The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
People have their complexities. They have their heroic moments and their villainous moments, too.
I don't think most people are all heroic or all villainous, so I find ambiguity of motivations to be a natural human condition.
Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.
I always felt that heroes were essentially dull. Villains were more exotic and could do more interesting things.
All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity.
The masculine energy was about survival. The male was the hunter who risked his life and had to be in the fight-flight mode.
An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.
In any story, the villain is the catalyst. The hero's not a person who will bend the rules or show the cracks in his armor. He's one-dimensional intentionally, but the villain is the person who owns up to what he is and stands by it.
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
The other thing is we have an incredible villain. And we worked very hard to have villains that are connected to the hero. They have an effect, an emotional effect. They never become out-of-this-world, crazy villains.