A Quote by Laura Dern
I tend to always love material with flawed protagonists and morally ambiguous people.
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I always end up taking people that are morally ambiguous.
Having been raised by actors who love moral ambiguity and flawed protagonists, I feel like it's sort of in the blood to want to take it on.
In the best stories, people are morally complex; they are flawed. We read them because the world is flawed, and we want to see it truthfully represented. And because it can be thrilling to be shocked and upset, and even to feel, for chilling moments, what it's like to be a bad person.
I'm interested in flawed protagonists. I was raised on them.
If I see something that's morally ambiguous or ambiguously beautiful or has some pull in some way, I won't censor myself; I always run towards the light.
I will always find a defense for characters, and that's why it's fun playing characters that are morally ambiguous, or are at least perceived superficially as being problematic.
I'm drawn to subversive material and material that speaks to communities and people who tend to be marginalized, and telling those stories in ways that subvert expectations. That's always been fun for me to play and always been fun for me to write.
I think we love watching people that are flawed because we're all flawed.
Flawed characters... a ticking clock... morally questionable acts on all sides... moody, evocative art... oh yeah, this the stuff crime noir fans love!
Real politics is messy and morally ambiguous and doesn't make for a compelling thriller.
Nobody is ever just a straight up protagonist or antagonist - everybody's morally ambiguous.
When I was a TV director working on Judd Apatow's show Undeclared. I was surrounded by so many young people. People like Seth Rogen, who was 9 years old or something. It was just a ridiculous amount of talented young people. I started to think I'd like to see a young-love movie, but not one done in that glossy, Hollywood, high-concept manner we've become accustomed to. One that was, for lack of a better way of putting it, a little more ambiguous, '70s-style, where everyone was flawed, middle-class characters.
All men are naturally included to obscure the morally ambiguous element in their political cause by investing it with religious sanctity.
The more you talk about - and live by - your principles, the harder it will be for others to treat you in a morally ambiguous manner.
Documentary makers use other people's lives as their raw material, and that is morally indefensible.
Doctor Mengele is such a powerful character historically, as powerful as Nazism itself, so these subjects always tend to be the protagonists. What I think is that despite this historical references, Wakolda or The German Doctor is a very intimate story.
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