"Making this film, putting it out was very scary. I thought that it was very possible that the world wouldn't be ready; that they would reject it or that it would not be received," he said. "But I knew that I loved it. I knew that it was something that needed to be said. And so, the fact that it was scary is kind of how I knew it was important and that it was my duty as an artist to face that fear and really risk it all."