I firmly believe that a story is only as good as the villain.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The villain of any story is often the most compelling character.
I think everybody likes to play the villain. They're always much more interesting characters.
Everything about playing a villain is appealing to me.
For me, especially with the villain, it's not very interesting to write a guy who is just 100% bad.
I understand being the villain is what people like. People play to that. They want to know about the villain.
Both villains and heroes are a bit boring, really, unless they're flawed and broken somehow. If they're not flawed and broken, then clearly they need to be broken and made flawed. That's what an author does if he or she has any dignity.
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.
Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories.
I think a good story's a good story and a good character's a good character.
I think, to me, I was always taught you never approach any character as a villain. Every human being on earth really believes that they're doing the best thing. We all have our rationalizations.