When I'm the person in front of the microphone, and I'm the person in the light, I want to reflect and refract the light onto places where they need the attention, where I don't need it.

One truth that I know for sure, for me anyway, is that the more you know, the more you realize that you don't know.

If anyone ever said biopic I would say, "It's not a biopic." We're fighting uphill against the weight of history. I was like, why don't we just call it historical fiction?

I was brought into the curiosity of it because with Sony Pictures Classics, which bought the movie, they look into what the feedback is and base that off of how they release it, and you end up hearing the feedback and getting that early talk. So the reviews early on that were "bad reviews," they were kind of reviewing another movie.

I want to be a part of great things.

I've never been a part of a film before that offers such a platform into real issues, that raises social awareness and has the potential to change things.

I think that it's much more important to do than to say. And you learn that a lot from your kids, who are watching you, you know?