We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Heroes have always served as a reflection of their times, a template of who we are and what we want to be.
Life is not simple, and people can't be boxed into being either heroes or villains.
All of us want something in life, all of us have flaws, and all of us have strengths. So, I always try to discover those things in a character and then try to expose it in one way or another.
I look at the story, I look at the idea and just try to think of it in terms of that whole body of myth and see where the characters fit in and what they ought to be doing-all those archetypes are there to play with.
I like heroes, and would like to be a hero myself. I suppose we all want that.
I don't really like heroes who always behave heroically. That's not interesting to me.
I think we all see ourselves as the heroes in our own lives.
I do think we need heroes. It gives people hope and an example to follow.
I believe that interest in heroes is universal and eternal.
Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us and many of us much worse.