I thought that would be kind of cool, to make a bad guy look sympathetic.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I don't like the idea the viewer can kind of sit there and go, 'Make me like this person.' People aren't inherently sympathetic.
I think any time anybody sees the bad guy show emotion and you're not hitting the audience over the head, there's always a tinge of empathy for that individual.
If you can find the line between sympathetic and creepy, you have reached a very funny area.
The bad guy in any good storytelling is always, in some weird way, a mirror for your hero's journey and for the challenges that they are facing and is some weird physical externalization of that fear that the character is holding onto and has to overcome.
It's cool to play a sinister bad guy who also has a human side.
I don't like sympathetic characters.
Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?
I think for really good-hearted people, that idea of putting yourself in the shoes of a monster to figure out why they acted that way, that's a really frightening idea.
I was really good at being a bad guy; I like that role. Not being bad to people - just talking bad.
If you make the bad guy enticing and dangerous, that's where the excitement of playing the role really kicks in. I don't get to do that in my normal day-to-day life. Life is too taxing to go to those dark places.