“Because I'm a filmmaker at heart, I know a villain can't be too humanized and the audience can't empathize with him too much.” KnowsHeartAudienceToo MuchFilmmakerVillain Author:Sharlto Copley
“I can't judge the characters I play, because it's for the audience to do. What I can try to do is to understand and embody what were they going through? How did they make the decisions they made? That to me is a more interesting way to approach something, rather than saying this person is a villain and that person is this and - because it's not very interesting to play that anyway.” WayTryingPersonsMadeI CanPlayCharacterDecisionInterestingAudienceJudgingApproachVillainVery InterestingInteresting Ways Author:Kevin Spacey
“Audiences just naturally hate me on screen. I could play a role in a tuxedo and people would think I was rotten. You can do much more with a villain part.” PeopleThinkingPlayHateCan DoRolesAudienceScreensVillainRottenHate MeTuxedos Author:Lee Van Cleef
“You can't do a movie without villains. You have to have something for the heroines or anti-heroines to be up against, and I wasn't going to contrive some monstrous female, but even if this were the most men-bashing movie ever made-let all us women get guns and kill men-it wouldn't even begin to make up for the 99% of all movies where the women are there to be caricatured as bimbos or to be skinned and decapitated. If men feel uncomfortable in the audience it is because they are identifying with the wrong character.” IfsMenFeelsMadeCharacterAudienceGunFemaleUncomfortableVillainKill MeMonstrousHeroinesIdentifyingMen Bashing Author:Callie Khouri
“In order to inhabit a villain, you mustn't care what the audience think of you. That's not why you are there. You mustn't care for a second whether the audience likes you or dislikes you. Your villain has to be way beyond that.” ThinkingWayCareOrderAudienceLikesDislikeVillainThink Of You Author:Ben Kingsley
“Technology isn't a villain. Technology should help, but if you just use the technology for the sake of technology, then you're cheating your audience. You're not giving them the best story and the best direction and so forth.” IfsGivingShouldHelpingStoriesUseTechnologyAudienceSakeCheatingVillain Author:Stan Lee