What matters to me is learning and growing, and getting to do what I love to do. As long as I can do that, I'm happy.

I think it's great to be a part of a franchise that is successful. Any franchise is successful because it's a continuation and people have seen it.

You have to wait for a big star to come in and generate interest on a project, and now that has become me, which is an amazing blessing.

We don't want to go to a movie and sit in a lecture.

I think that'll always be there for [Clint] Barton, right? You have real life, and then you have fight life. And that's the character that I love now - discovering that in him makes him a very sort of accessible Avenger. That'll always be there, I'm sure. And it certainly plays in this one.

You have a great road map when you play somebody that exists. That's the amazing thing. But then you have great limitations from that road map. It's hard to deviate from it creatively as an actor. It's like, "Oh wait, he'd never do that."

They don't allow you to go any further unless you can do this bomb suit training, because it puts such a mental strain on your spirit. It dumbs you down about 25 to 30 IQ points. You start to hallucinate in the heat inside the suit after 20-30 minutes. So you try not to stay in it too dang long. So the preparation for that - it's either you have it, or you do not.