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In the film world, we can all be heroes. In the real world, where heroism can cost you your life or the life of the ones you love, people aren't so willing to make those sacrifices. When they do, they are set apart from the rest of us.

You know, heroes are ordinary people that have achieved extraordinary things in life.

You have to always try to think about them like real people first, and not just heroes. They have to be real characters. As people do more and more superhero stuff, the characters are what distinguish it, just like in cop shows.

Literature throws us many great heroes. Real life invariably outdoes them.

I love the idea of a movie hero in a thriller who is able to get ahead by just his brilliance, and not with a gun or by being an action hero.

There are a lot of people who can be classified as heroes and do great things and inspire me.

Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary.

Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials, or none at all.

Heroes in drama are people who try hard to reach a virtuous ideal. And whether they succeed or fail really doesn't matter - it's the trying that counts.

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.