I can say with full sincerity that I am happy. I'm happy because I'm doing what I love and I'm not selling out.

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I think showing heroes as fallible helps us and reminds us that we are ourselves fallible and no man is perfect but we can still achieve great things.

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Everybody who knows me is like, 'Dude, you've got to chill out.' I can't not work, given where I want to be.

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I just can't relax. That's my problem.

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With films, you completely immerse yourself in a character, get into who they are, live it and then release it.

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You've got to be honest with yourself aesthetically about who could you play. You want to artistically be true to that character.

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I want to play Martin Luther King. That is absolutely a role and a character who is important to the landscape of the world that I really want to play.

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