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ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ INARRITU![]()
I don't do villains often enough. There are two approaches: give them sympathetic, reasonable mo...
CHARLES STROSS For me, it's very offensive when I notice that it's all about my appearance, how I look, tha...
YULIYA SNIGIR In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.
YULIYA SNIGIR I came to Los Angeles only after filming 'A Good Day to Die Hard,' when I was cast in the in...
YULIYA SNIGIR Thank God, I have sort of a pan-European accent rather than Russian, which doesn't sound very pl...
YULIYA SNIGIR I'm learning to be braver with colorful clothes, even if they're a little wild.
YULIYA SNIGIR My dream was to play in good films, no matter in what country. I always waited for a decent script, ...
YULIYA SNIGIR![]()
British actors are renowned for being great villains in movies, like Bond films, all the rest of it.
LUKE EVANS I want to make films without a single clear message, and films that are as close as possible to what...
SPIKE JONZE Boutique distributors are very often based in New York City, they specialize in American independent...
GREG DEAN SCHMITZ![]()
People who are short, they're often portrayed as the victim.
WARWICK DAVIS![]()
Villains often come with pretty faces.
ANNA GODBERSEN Villains never know they are villains in a picture so I play this like I'm the nicest guy in the wor...
WAYNE ROGERS Clear your mind must be, if you are to discover the real villains behind this plot.
FRANK OZ![]()
Too often, women are portrayed in two ways: as prizes to be won by men or as damsels in distress.
ANN AGUIRRE The Russians often took advantage of Lend-Lease.
W. AVERELL HARRIMAN As a feminist, just to speak to what women go through, I think women are put in a box way too often....
KETHER DONOHUE![]()
The small amount of these activities shown in our films essentially depict villains or characterize ...
WALT DISNEY The young people are rather interested in watching the American feature films. But over time they fo...
ZHANG YUANYUAN The young people are rather interested in watching the American feature films, ... But over time the...
ZHANG YIMOU Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.
PAUL ERDOS Blacks on prime-time TV are only portrayed as comedians - and often in no better a light than 'A...
DON CORNELIUS It's clear price gouging, ... The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, rel...
MAURICE HINCHEY![]()
I like being a villain. Villains are more exciting.
JUDD NELSON![]()
My paintings capture the humor, zaniness, and depth of the Batman villains as well as the Freudian m...
ADAM WEST![]()
She should have know that villains often come with pretty faces.
ANNA GODBERSEN I see our veterans as American heroes, not as cartoon characters.
BLAKE FARENTHOLD![]()
I make American films for American audiences and Asian films for Asian audiences.
JACKIE CHAN![]()
A question I have often asked is, ‘What would an inoffensive political cartoon look like?’ What ...
SALMAN RUSHDIE![]()
'St. Elmo's Fire' is one of my favorite films. I like the storytelling of those teenage ...
JAMES MCAVOY![]()
Are people raised to be villains or vilified like I have become?
MARILYN MANSON![]()
We had no idea of his motivations. And even now some of his motivations are unclear.
CARL BERNSTEIN We often see literature about women that impair and immerse the women themselves, such as when women...
OKKY MADASARI American films are terribly popular all over the world and American movie stars are terribly importa...
VINCENTE MINNELLI![]()
Our American professors like their literature clear, cold, pure and very dead.
SINCLAIR LEWIS There was a quaintness to his 1960s (cartoon) that some people felt was open to interpretation. He h...
DAN DIDIO![]()
I'd rather do theater and British films than move to LA in hopes of getting small roles in American ...
KATE WINSLET Having portrayed English-speaking Indian characters in British and American projects, I have always ...
ART MALIK You see the media version (of the South), which is often a caricature or cartoon,
CYNTHIA HILL![]()
Because good writing in a TV cartoon is so rare, I think the animation on The Simpsons is often over...
MATT GROENING We're often portrayed as rich, spoiled athletes who play a game for too much money.
DAVID DUVAL First of all, you look at Rocky films now, and if that isn't a cartoon series there isn't an...
CHARLES S. DUTTON![]()
I'd like to think that my films are personal enough to exist without hearkening back to their re...
FRANK DARABONT![]()
People are often frightened of Parisians, but an American in Paris will find no harsher critic than ...
DAVID SEDARIS![]()
People are so rarely villains in their own minds.
RACHEL HAWKINS I wanted to make Canadian films, and I ended up making American films.
TED KOTCHEFF My films express me, my sense of rhythm, my sense of impact, my sense of kinetic energy. I like film...
PAUL GREENGRASS When I was young and I was forced to watch Disney films, I would fast forward the good guys, wasn't ...
NUNO ROQUE It looks like a cartoon fish.
KATIE STADTMUELLER![]()
Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, some...
IAN MCKELLEN![]()
Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
SINCLAIR LEWIS![]()
The Russians and the Chinese have been absolutely clear they don't want to see Iran with a nucle...
HILLARY CLINTON Russians clearly perceive America's global influence as being in irreversible decline and Americ...
IVAN KRASTEV I'm not sure the Russians would be happy that their iconic wooly mammoth has North American orig...
HENDRIK POINAR![]()
We both know the world would be better off without heroes. Without villains. Without any of us, gett...
MARISSA MEYER I don't like horror films. Horror films in the sense of the way horror films are now, like '...
ATTICUS SHAFFER![]()
Villains are fun to play.
EDI GATHEGI It's like an old Jonathan Winters movie - 'The Russians aren't coming! The Russians aren't coming.' ...
ROBERT BRUSCA There are multiple motivations for an arsonist's behavior,
DOUG WILLIAMS![]()
Villains are a lot of fun. My villains have a lot of tongue-in-cheek. They are sometimes conscious o...
JOHN RHYS-DAVIES![]()
Its become perfectly clear that the big oil companies are cashing in while average American families...
CHUCK SCHUMER The IIC wants cartoon villains, not the truth. Mr. Sevan has now reached a point in his dealings wit...
ERIC LEWIS![]()
Millennials are often portrayed as apathetic, disinterested, tuned out and selfish. None of those ad...
CHELSEA CLINTON I don't like films giving me answers. I like films that are provoking me, that are making me fee...
JULIETTE BINOCHE![]()
Good female parts are hard to come by, so I go all over the place to find them: cable TV, network mo...
HOLLY HUNTER![]()
I am like a cartoon strip; I am like Donald Duck; everybody knows me in Italy.
ROBERTO BENIGNI [The Web site also gives the creator a way to fight back against the sense that you are only as good...
BOB MANKOFF In my opinion, villains are so much more interesting than heroes. So 'Suicide Squad' is just...
HARLEY QUINN SMITH I like French films, Chabrol in particular. With him, you often get a skewed morality in which you s...
RONALD FRAME![]()
I am often on guard over the Russians. In the darkness one sees their forms move like stick storks, ...
ERICH MARIA REMARQUE![]()
The cartoon me writes the books cartoon people read in the cartoon world, because they need things t...
NEIL GAIMAN When you work on anything, you want to find the range of impulses - which ones get portrayed is anot...
WILLEM DAFOE I've liked most of the films that I've been in and those are the kinds of films I like to see.
BENICIO DEL TORO The Russians are not as addicted to coffee as the Americans. We should work on that!
MAELLE GAVET![]()
I've found that the people who play villains are the nicest people in the world, and people who ...
TIM BURTON Chimps are portrayed as the super-ape and gorillas are the big brutes in the forest,
RICHARD CARROLL Chimps are portrayed as the super-ape and gorillas are the big brutes in the forest.
RICHARD CARROLL![]()
The great mystery is why robots come off so well in science-fiction films when the human characters ...
JOHN PODHORETZ![]()
The key fact missed most often by social scientists utilizing documentary films for data, is this: d...
BRUCE JACKSON![]()
Villains are fun. I think the important thing in playing them is that they don't see themselves ...
RHYS IFANS She had always found villains more exciting than heroes. They had ambition, passion. They made the s...
SOMAN CHAINANI I had to choose between American and British actors, and it didn't take me more than a second to...
JEAN-JACQUES ANNAUD In Quebec, we're less inhibited artistically, culturally, politically. We're less focused on...
PHILIPPE FALARDEAU My books have very few villains pretending to be righteous, but they are filled with good people who...
KENNETH EVERETT![]()
I don't personally believe that villains exist. Villains are just a way of saying that somebody ...
RYAN REYNOLDS![]()
Often, what seems like an impossible climb is just a staircase without the steps drawn in.
ROBERT BRAULT I am a method actor, but I'm also a film actor as well as a method actor. Characters that don...
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO Film and novel characters are often stereotyped, but racial stereotyping in many novels or films cre...
ANGELICA HOPES In fact, their motivations are perfectly aligned with ours?that is, as broad a penetration as possib...
KYRIL FAENOV Also, there are now new laws in Brazil which create incentives for Argentine and Latin American film...
WALTER SALLES We are the underdogs. After all, the Russians are the titleholders.
GEORGES GOVEN![]()
But after all, the villains are the salt in the soup of a story.
CORNELIA FUNKE![]()
They are superpower of villains. They are superpower of Al Capone.
MOHAMMED SAEED AL-SAHAF I'm not usually attracted to big-budget American films.
IAN HART I explain this not for publicity, nor seeking to win an argument of right or wrong, I explain so tha...
TIMOTHY MCVEIGH I have been thinking a lot about what we see in villains, how we relate to villains, and what it is ...
FINN WITTROCK![]()
I didn't want to start acting like a cartoon.
RACHAEL LEIGH COOK![]()
If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts.
ADAM DURITZ I've liked most of the films that I've been in and those are the kinds of films I like to se...
BENICIO DEL TORO
ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ INARRITU
I don't do villains often enough. There are two approaches: give them sympathetic, reasonable mo... CHARLES STROSS For me, it's very offensive when I notice that it's all about my appearance, how I look, tha...
YULIYA SNIGIR In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.
YULIYA SNIGIR I came to Los Angeles only after filming 'A Good Day to Die Hard,' when I was cast in the in...
YULIYA SNIGIR Thank God, I have sort of a pan-European accent rather than Russian, which doesn't sound very pl...
YULIYA SNIGIR I'm learning to be braver with colorful clothes, even if they're a little wild.
YULIYA SNIGIR My dream was to play in good films, no matter in what country. I always waited for a decent script, ...
YULIYA SNIGIR
British actors are renowned for being great villains in movies, like Bond films, all the rest of it. LUKE EVANS I want to make films without a single clear message, and films that are as close as possible to what...
SPIKE JONZE Boutique distributors are very often based in New York City, they specialize in American independent...
GREG DEAN SCHMITZ
People who are short, they're often portrayed as the victim. WARWICK DAVIS
Villains often come with pretty faces. ANNA GODBERSEN Villains never know they are villains in a picture so I play this like I'm the nicest guy in the wor...
WAYNE ROGERS Clear your mind must be, if you are to discover the real villains behind this plot.
FRANK OZ
Too often, women are portrayed in two ways: as prizes to be won by men or as damsels in distress. ANN AGUIRRE The Russians often took advantage of Lend-Lease.
W. AVERELL HARRIMAN As a feminist, just to speak to what women go through, I think women are put in a box way too often....
KETHER DONOHUE
The small amount of these activities shown in our films essentially depict villains or characterize ... WALT DISNEY The young people are rather interested in watching the American feature films. But over time they fo...
ZHANG YUANYUAN The young people are rather interested in watching the American feature films, ... But over time the...
ZHANG YIMOU Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.
PAUL ERDOS Blacks on prime-time TV are only portrayed as comedians - and often in no better a light than 'A...
DON CORNELIUS It's clear price gouging, ... The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, rel...
MAURICE HINCHEY
I like being a villain. Villains are more exciting. JUDD NELSON
My paintings capture the humor, zaniness, and depth of the Batman villains as well as the Freudian m... ADAM WEST
She should have know that villains often come with pretty faces. ANNA GODBERSEN I see our veterans as American heroes, not as cartoon characters.
BLAKE FARENTHOLD
I make American films for American audiences and Asian films for Asian audiences. JACKIE CHAN
A question I have often asked is, ‘What would an inoffensive political cartoon look like?’ What ... SALMAN RUSHDIE
'St. Elmo's Fire' is one of my favorite films. I like the storytelling of those teenage ... JAMES MCAVOY
Are people raised to be villains or vilified like I have become? MARILYN MANSON
We had no idea of his motivations. And even now some of his motivations are unclear. CARL BERNSTEIN We often see literature about women that impair and immerse the women themselves, such as when women...
OKKY MADASARI American films are terribly popular all over the world and American movie stars are terribly importa...
VINCENTE MINNELLI
Our American professors like their literature clear, cold, pure and very dead. SINCLAIR LEWIS There was a quaintness to his 1960s (cartoon) that some people felt was open to interpretation. He h...
DAN DIDIO
I'd rather do theater and British films than move to LA in hopes of getting small roles in American ... KATE WINSLET Having portrayed English-speaking Indian characters in British and American projects, I have always ...
ART MALIK You see the media version (of the South), which is often a caricature or cartoon,
CYNTHIA HILL
Because good writing in a TV cartoon is so rare, I think the animation on The Simpsons is often over... MATT GROENING We're often portrayed as rich, spoiled athletes who play a game for too much money.
DAVID DUVAL First of all, you look at Rocky films now, and if that isn't a cartoon series there isn't an...
CHARLES S. DUTTON
I'd like to think that my films are personal enough to exist without hearkening back to their re... FRANK DARABONT
People are often frightened of Parisians, but an American in Paris will find no harsher critic than ... DAVID SEDARIS
People are so rarely villains in their own minds. RACHEL HAWKINS I wanted to make Canadian films, and I ended up making American films.
TED KOTCHEFF My films express me, my sense of rhythm, my sense of impact, my sense of kinetic energy. I like film...
PAUL GREENGRASS When I was young and I was forced to watch Disney films, I would fast forward the good guys, wasn't ...
NUNO ROQUE It looks like a cartoon fish.
KATIE STADTMUELLER
Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, some... IAN MCKELLEN
Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead. SINCLAIR LEWIS
The Russians and the Chinese have been absolutely clear they don't want to see Iran with a nucle... HILLARY CLINTON Russians clearly perceive America's global influence as being in irreversible decline and Americ...
IVAN KRASTEV I'm not sure the Russians would be happy that their iconic wooly mammoth has North American orig...
HENDRIK POINAR
We both know the world would be better off without heroes. Without villains. Without any of us, gett... MARISSA MEYER I don't like horror films. Horror films in the sense of the way horror films are now, like '...
ATTICUS SHAFFER
Villains are fun to play. EDI GATHEGI It's like an old Jonathan Winters movie - 'The Russians aren't coming! The Russians aren't coming.' ...
ROBERT BRUSCA There are multiple motivations for an arsonist's behavior,
DOUG WILLIAMS
Villains are a lot of fun. My villains have a lot of tongue-in-cheek. They are sometimes conscious o... JOHN RHYS-DAVIES
Its become perfectly clear that the big oil companies are cashing in while average American families... CHUCK SCHUMER The IIC wants cartoon villains, not the truth. Mr. Sevan has now reached a point in his dealings wit...
ERIC LEWIS
Millennials are often portrayed as apathetic, disinterested, tuned out and selfish. None of those ad... CHELSEA CLINTON I don't like films giving me answers. I like films that are provoking me, that are making me fee...
JULIETTE BINOCHE
Good female parts are hard to come by, so I go all over the place to find them: cable TV, network mo... HOLLY HUNTER
I am like a cartoon strip; I am like Donald Duck; everybody knows me in Italy. ROBERTO BENIGNI [The Web site also gives the creator a way to fight back against the sense that you are only as good...
BOB MANKOFF In my opinion, villains are so much more interesting than heroes. So 'Suicide Squad' is just...
HARLEY QUINN SMITH I like French films, Chabrol in particular. With him, you often get a skewed morality in which you s...
RONALD FRAME
I am often on guard over the Russians. In the darkness one sees their forms move like stick storks, ... ERICH MARIA REMARQUE
The cartoon me writes the books cartoon people read in the cartoon world, because they need things t... NEIL GAIMAN When you work on anything, you want to find the range of impulses - which ones get portrayed is anot...
WILLEM DAFOE I've liked most of the films that I've been in and those are the kinds of films I like to see.
BENICIO DEL TORO The Russians are not as addicted to coffee as the Americans. We should work on that!
MAELLE GAVET
I've found that the people who play villains are the nicest people in the world, and people who ... TIM BURTON Chimps are portrayed as the super-ape and gorillas are the big brutes in the forest,
RICHARD CARROLL Chimps are portrayed as the super-ape and gorillas are the big brutes in the forest.
RICHARD CARROLL
The great mystery is why robots come off so well in science-fiction films when the human characters ... JOHN PODHORETZ
The key fact missed most often by social scientists utilizing documentary films for data, is this: d... BRUCE JACKSON
Villains are fun. I think the important thing in playing them is that they don't see themselves ... RHYS IFANS She had always found villains more exciting than heroes. They had ambition, passion. They made the s...
SOMAN CHAINANI I had to choose between American and British actors, and it didn't take me more than a second to...
JEAN-JACQUES ANNAUD In Quebec, we're less inhibited artistically, culturally, politically. We're less focused on...
PHILIPPE FALARDEAU My books have very few villains pretending to be righteous, but they are filled with good people who...
KENNETH EVERETT
I don't personally believe that villains exist. Villains are just a way of saying that somebody ... RYAN REYNOLDS
Often, what seems like an impossible climb is just a staircase without the steps drawn in. ROBERT BRAULT I am a method actor, but I'm also a film actor as well as a method actor. Characters that don...
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO Film and novel characters are often stereotyped, but racial stereotyping in many novels or films cre...
ANGELICA HOPES In fact, their motivations are perfectly aligned with ours?that is, as broad a penetration as possib...
KYRIL FAENOV Also, there are now new laws in Brazil which create incentives for Argentine and Latin American film...
WALTER SALLES We are the underdogs. After all, the Russians are the titleholders.
GEORGES GOVEN
But after all, the villains are the salt in the soup of a story. CORNELIA FUNKE
They are superpower of villains. They are superpower of Al Capone. MOHAMMED SAEED AL-SAHAF I'm not usually attracted to big-budget American films.
IAN HART I explain this not for publicity, nor seeking to win an argument of right or wrong, I explain so tha...
TIMOTHY MCVEIGH I have been thinking a lot about what we see in villains, how we relate to villains, and what it is ...
FINN WITTROCK
I didn't want to start acting like a cartoon. RACHAEL LEIGH COOK
If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts. ADAM DURITZ I've liked most of the films that I've been in and those are the kinds of films I like to se...
BENICIO DEL TORO
