The best movies are made from a point of view of an understanding of human nature and an understanding of history and an understanding of what motivates people, of what makes a good movie from an emotional place.

What I think is really great about this movie [42], that young people who weren't there will have a chance to have the visceral experience of what Jackie Robinson went through.

I never followed baseball very much. As a kid, I never followed sports.

If you're asking me to acknowledge that I've gotten older, I can do that.

You keep on going until you get it as close to being right as the time and patience of others will allow.

That's always my ambition is to create a character out of what will help tell the story. I've never been an actor to say my character wouldn't do that, because he should do that in order to help tell the story.

I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator.