Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.

  • -- W. Somerset Maugham 威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆

对那些把人看成一体的老小说家来说,事情要容易得多。总的来说,他们的英雄是彻头彻尾的好人,他们的坏人则是彻头彻尾的坏人。

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And I believe we need heroes, I believe we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by.

我相信我们需要英雄,我相信我们需要某些人来衡量我们自己的缺点。

Villains never know they are villains in a picture so I play this like I'm the nicest guy in the world.

坏人永远不知道自己是坏人,所以我假装自己是世界上最好的人。

Growing up, my parents were my heroes, in the way they conducted their lives.

在成长的过程中,我的父母是我心目中的英雄,他们的生活方式就是这样。