Travis Smiley: As the trailer kept popping up I am legend, I am legend, I am legend, I thought about you and that you are on this path to becoming a legend yourself in this business. I see Will Smith saying I am legend, I’m thinking this is Will Smith. I am Legend. You are really becoming an iconic figure. What do you make of that?
Will Smith: Umm it’s what my grandmother told me I had to do you know. Um I was sitting with Tyrese a couple of weeks ago, you know just coming off the transformers, with him just talking just about the business and just tryna really just he and I get on the same wave length so I could be of some assistance if I can and there’s a concept that… I don’t want to be an icon. I want to be an idea you know. I want to represent an idea. I want to represent possibilities. Um I want to represent magic. Right, that you’re in a universe and 2 + 2 = 4. 2 + 2 only equals 4 if you accept that 2 + 2 = 4. 2 + 2 is gon be what I want it to be you know and… There’s a there’s a redemptive power that making a choice has you know, rather than feeling like you’re at affect to all the things that are happening. Make a choice right, You just decide what it’s gonna be, who you’re gonna be , how you’re gonna do it. Just decide. And then from that point, the universe is gon get out your way. It’s like, it’s water, it wants to move and go around stuff you know. So for me, I want to represent possibilities, I want to represent the idea that you really can make what you want. One of my favorite books is the Alchemist Paulo Coelho and I just believe that. I believe that I can create whatever I want to create. If I can put my head on it right, study it, learn the patterns and you know just… It’s hard to put into words metaphysical esoterical non sense but I feel very strongly that we are who we choose to be.