We've had crooks from the beginning of time... it's always very interesting and troubling why good people do bad things.

From the beginning of time, we've had financial crises. People always blame the banks and for good reason. When you look for the root causes, they're almost always failed government policies.

Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad things.

We’re always taught that bad things happen to bad people and we believe that we’re somehow above experiencing a tragedy, but we learned that’s all bullshit.

I have always argued, in a good novel, interesting things happen to interesting people.

Bad people sometimes do good things, and good people do really bad things or do something the audience disagrees with.