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.

It's important to keep the people who know you well around you. It helps center you.

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?

But most scripts are terrible. Most projects are bad, that's just kind of the way it is. And I'm not really attracted to those.

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.

It's great to be in a film that's able to have people really want to become socially conscious, to walk out of the theatre and want to do something.

I think it’s intoxicating when somebody is so unapologetically who they are.