“I never see my bad guys as simply bad. They want pretty much the same ...” — Elmore Leonard Quote

I never see my bad guys as simply bad. They want pretty much the same thing that you and I want: they want to be happy.

I'm not going to write for posterity. I'm going to write to make a buck.

People ask me, 'Why are you still writing books?' Like I'm still only writing to make money and as soon as I have enough I'll quit and go fishing? I like to write books. It's the most satisfying thing I do.

I would say just start writing. You've got to write every day. Copy someone that you like if you think that perhaps could become your sound, too. I did that with Hemingway, and I thought I was writing just like Hemingway. Then all of a sudden it occurred to me - he didn't have a sense of humor. I don't know anything he's written that's funny.

To steal a term from one of my Twitter followers, 'Deathlok' is the 'anti-villain.' He's on the side of the bad guys, but he obviously doesn't want to be there.

On the pitch sometimes when we need to be bad guys, we need to be bad guys.

To us, being the bad guys is cool, because we always root for the bad guys in the movies.

I have played my fair share of bad guys, or at least the nemesis.

I am a crazy fan of movies like 'The Wild Bunch' or 'Wages of Fear,' where you're rooting for the bad guys.