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.

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?

I think if you're going to read reviews, you have to just concede that they are all right. And I think I read two very diametrically opposed reviews about my movie and I had to go, yeah, I agree with both of them.

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).

I pray that our leaders stop pointing fingers and playing the blame game and seek a real solution for the good of the planet and all who inhabit it.

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.

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?