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 prefer film to TV because of the amount of time film affords you that TV doesn't (though theater is probably my favorite and the scariest place of all).

You should do what you're supposed to do and hope that that ripples out.

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

I think we should all be more concerned about the environment and the effects of global warming. It will be pointless to talk about all the issues that divide us when it's 300 degrees outside.

I want to be a part of great things.

We're trying to do what Miles Davis would have wanted us to do, which is approach it as artists with his life as the canvas.