Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez. 2018 Getty Images. Courtesy of Walt Disney Pictures.

The stars A WRINKLE IN TIME descended to a Hollywood hotel to share their thoughts at a press conference. Director Ava DuVernay was joined by cast members Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, Mindy Kaling, Chris Pine, Zach Galifianakis, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Storm Reid, Levi Miller, Deric McCabe, Rowan Blanchard and screenwriter Jennifer Lee.

Read below some of the most interesting things that they have to say about the big budget, fantasy adaptation.

Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez. 2018 Getty Images. Courtesy of Walt Disney Pictures.

Ava DuVernay

“This is a film for young people and people who are young at heart. For me, I had to ask myself – ‘Do I still have a heart?’ first of all and ‘Is there an inner child still in me?’ Could I tap into that eleven-year-old, twelve-year-old the thirteen-year-old in me [and] find that light that I used to have, that dreamer? And so, I got to do that for two years. I got to really get in touch with all that I thought I would be when I was young and really tap into that and try to create some magic with this great group of people.”

“We’re living in a chaotic time as adults, so imagine if you have only been on the Earth for a few years or 11 years or 12 years, the tension that you feel. Give a little breather and to say, ‘Who you are is enough and this is how you’re going to make it through, by finding something in yourself,’ because we all have that little voice inside of us and, a lot of time, we don’t listen to it.”

“There’s love in every frame of this movie. There’s love in everything that I do. I don’t have children. I won’t have children, by choice. These films are my children; they’re what I leave behind. They have my name on them. They have my blood in them. And so I’m proud of that. And, from there, you offer it up to the world and hope they can see our intention.”

Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez. 2018 Getty Images. Courtesy of Walt Disney Pictures.

Mindy Kaling

“I loved science fiction and fantasy growing up but it was a genre that largely did not love me back. I never saw any representation of like a dark-skinned Indian woman, Indian girl or anybody in anything that I saw. It’s a really peculiar thing to grow up loving something that shows you no love back. It’s such a pure love because you’re not getting anything from it.”

“To be part of this, to be on a green screen stage in harnesses because you’re doing a science fiction/fantasy movie, it’s so fun because I finally feel love with open arms from something that has ignored me completely. And so that is so profound, and if that can be something that the miniature version of me could watch and be excited by, I think that’s such a huge thing.”

Zach Galifianakis

“I think if you played the game which one doesn’t belong here – I feel like that sometimes when I get hired but Ava and all of the people here were very gracious. To be involved with such a big movie like this it makes me – I feel real proud.”

Oprah Winfrey

“Well, first of all, you have Disney money. What’s different is ‘Selma’ we were, in the end, like are we going to have enough money? How much do I have? Let me see if I can help you out here. You’ve got the Disney machine! And that’s one of the reasons why this is so exciting.”

“If everyone can get that message, that’s how we have hope in the world. We’re looking for warriors who can bring out that.”

A WRINKLE IN TIME is now playing nationwide.

Following the discovery of a new form of space travel as well as Meg’s father’s disappearance, she, her brother, and her friend must join three magical beings – Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who, and Mrs. Which – to travel across the universe to rescue him from a terrible evil.