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?

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.

Speak up when you're supposed to, as opposed to trying to write prescriptions for the way people should live.

There are things that are happening way earlier than that when it comes to someone deciding whether they're going to spend x amount of millions of dollars on a movie. I want $100 million success. The moviegoer is the person I'm more interested in than the Academy.

Every time I've learned something, I've realized there are a hundred more things I don't know about the thing I just learned.

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've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.