One of the rules I try to follow is that normal people are going to be involved even in heroic events.
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People aren't universally heroic.
I don't really like heroes who always behave heroically. That's not interesting to me.
Heroic people take risks to themselves to help others. There's nothing heroic about accepting $5 million to go out and run around chasing a ball, although you may show fortitude or those other qualities while you do it.
Often, what allows someone to behave heroically in dire circumstances is unpalatable in day-to-day life.
That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are capable of.
People have their complexities. They have their heroic moments and their villainous moments, too.
Everyone has faced something; some struggles are more heroic than others.
I don't think most people are all heroic or all villainous, so I find ambiguity of motivations to be a natural human condition.
True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway.
I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background there was not this heroic thing.