I've made a career writing about fictitious anti-heroes. To create these worlds, I've spent a lot of time with active members on both sides of the law. And if I had to pick the most interesting of the two, the choice is obvious - we all love the guys in black.
Interpretation
The quote reflects the fascination with anti-heroes in storytelling, emphasizing our attraction to morally complex characters.
Kurt Sutter highlights the allure of anti-heroes in fiction, suggesting that these morally ambiguous characters often captivate audiences more than traditional heroes. His experience interacting with people from both sides of the law deepens his understanding of this phenomenon, reinforcing the idea that we are drawn to those who defy conventional morals, often represented metaphorically as 'the guys in black'.
In practice
During a lecture on modern literature, this quote can illustrate how complexities in character development engage readers.
The stuff that I learned on 'Sons,' the education of how to tell stories, was part of that mythology. It's hard to look at it and go, 'Oh, if I knew this, I would have done it this way,' because the fact is I like to think that all that sort of unraveled as it was supposed to.
He asked, "what makes a man a writer?" "well," I said, "it's simple, it's either you get it down on paper or you jump off a bridge. writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers." "are you desperate?" "I don't know.
I just wanted to write something about running, but I realized that to write about my running is to write about my writing. It's a parallel thing in me.
Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way.
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
The sacred sense of beyond, of timelessness, of a world which had an eternal value and the substance of which was divine had been given back to me today by this friend of mine who taught me dancing.
I am installed in a fairylike place. I do not know where to poke my head; everything is superb, and I would like to do everything, so I use up and squander lots of color, for there are trials to be made.
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