I'd read a lot of thrillers about politicians and presidents, but never one where you flip the stereotypes and make good people bad and bad people good.
Whatever happened to books? Suddenly everybody's talking about these 100-hour movies called 'Breaking Bad'. People are talking about TV the same way they used to talk about novels back in the 1980s. I like to think I hang out with some pretty smart people, but all they talk about is 'Breaking Bad.'
People are complicated. People have secrets. It doesn't make them good people or bad people.
Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to find the good in the bad people that you portray and the bad in the good.
Well, people fall in love with the wrong guy all the time, it doesn't make them bad people.
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
Technology itself is neither good nor bad. People are good or bad.
Bottom line is that there's bad people everywhere. And every now and again, we are going to have to step to them to make sure that we preserve our way of life.
I certainly don't like to play a bad guy. There are no bad people. It's only shades of grey. Also, I am not a great actor who can transform completely into a totally different character for a movie. I am not a trained actor.
When times are bad, people like to lose themselves in the sheer glamour of another period: beautiful wardrobes, magnificent meals served in elegant settings.
For most people, the question why be good - as distinguished from merely law abiding - is a simple one. Because God commands it, because the Bible requires it, because good people go to Heaven and bad people go to Hell.
I don't believe that if you do good, good things will happen. Everything is completely accidental and random. Sometimes bad things happen to very good people and sometimes good things happen to bad people. But at least if you try to do good things, then you're spending your time doing something worthwhile.
In the early '90s, I was disillusioned after the blasts and riots in Mumbai. I was in college and started thinking that religion was the root cause of all these evils. While my father told me not to blame religion because of a few bad people, I wasn't convinced. The faith was restored after I started writing my first book.
I've never thought about it before, but I suppose bad people might need someone to pray to, too.
I've actually always wanted to be able to read people's minds. My sister did a movie with super-powers and that's the one I would have wanted, so I really lucked out. The negative is that people are really cruel in their own minds, but you can weed out the bad people from the good people, and then just hang out with the good people.
If you're glued together right and honorable, you will succeed. Get in there and get rid of stupidities and avoid bad people. Try teaching that to your grandchildren. The best way is by example. Fix yourself.
In a novel, if you're any good, you don't just have good people or bad people. You have complicated people. You have real people.
You know, bad people, I've never seen bad people have angels.
Republicans aren't bad people. They've got some views that are legitimate... and I'd like to think they believe the same of me.
Things can get only so bad. People want to eat, so at some point they resist further cuts to their consumption - it's not a bottomless pit.
Getting a gun should be easy for good people and impossible for bad people. The only trick is telling the difference.
There are doctors who help people who have done bad things; there are lawyers who defend bad people. I don't think it's unique to my profession.
There are bad people and there are bad corporations. Just as there are good people and good corporations. That might seem too black and white, but what can I tell ya?
Usually, characters that are doing something nefarious have some extra layers to them. The general rule is bad people don't necessarily think they are bad.
My dad was a movie star. Having that name was good and bad. People think it's a silver spoon. It's not.
For 'Breaking Bad,' people were with Walter White for 99% of that show, even though that guy is a monster.
I've always read in order to figure out people more, and that includes bad people and good people.
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
One of my biggest fears when I see really bad people on T.V. is that I don't know how they got there.