I'm always ready and willing to just keep pushing and working and going because it's in my spirit.

You go home happy, you go to work happy, you make a better project because everybody loves it and loves each other.

The danger in having modern music tied to a period piece is that hearing something may take you out of the moment.

It's crazy how intelligent kids can be at a very young age and how they know what they know.

Some of my job consists of me drafting and making technical drawings. So everything I did back then has materialized into something substantial for me today. Whatever kids are into, that might be their thing.

They don't really focus on that history here in America. I remember growing up as a kid, history class was very washed-over. They didn't really get into the gritty bits of slavery. It's a very, very small section in the history books. It's not something they really touch on directly with American curriculums.

The time frame and how people treated each other was upsetting, but what's great about this story is that they really focus on the strengths of these people and the strengths of the culture, of who these Americans were. That, actually, is uplifting.