Leonardo DiCaprio , the Academy Award-winning actor, has created an indelible mark in the entertainment industry with his ever-gracious skills and the kind of roles he chose over the years. The 51-year-old actor firmly believes in choosing the right scripts over the paychecks with multiple zeros by the end, at least early on in the career.



Leonardo DiCaprio claims that overexposure could be damagingDiCaprio put forward the idea of looking back at your career 20, 30, 40, and 50 years from now, which helped build a building from the little blocks. “The thing that I could say more than anything is that if you love this profession, if you love being an actor, you have to realize that it’s a marathon, it’s not a sprint,” he said in a conversation with Deadline. Moreover, the ‘Inception’ actor claimed that overexposure could be damaging.



While he said that the concept of social media didn’t exist when he started his career, he had instincts about overexposure early in his career. “It was a time where I watched actors that kind of disappeared their personal life, and you didn’t know much about them,” he said, adding that it’s much different in the age of social media. Furthermore, Leonardo DiCaprio talked about doing films over time, and not inundating a massive amount of films in one or two years.



Leonardo DiCaprio's views on independent films

“I said with Titanic, that was the real changing point, when I got to choose my own films. But until then, I did a lot of independent movies,” he said, adding that he went for the characters whom he found the most interesting and that he could sink his teeth into. As for his professional life, Leonardo DiCaprio was part of ‘One Battle After Another,’ the film by Paul Thomas Anderson .