Ezra Edelman

Like who wants sort of a microscopic sort of accounting of someone's life when some of it is going to be a little scummy at times?

But the whole point of it is the journey.

And the whole point of it was actually reflecting a journey that he went through.

Prince's whole thing was that he's a Gemini.

And so this sort of push-pull of who he was in all these facets, male, female, black, white, artist, businessman, it goes on and on.

In terms of this binary, in his head was this idea of like good and evil, which, sorry, God and sex.

And that was another basic dichotomy of his art.

And he's always sort of weighing his own moral account of how he was going through the world.

And he believed in karma in terms of like how he treated people.

And I think one of the things that was fascinating is that Prince had a baby with his wife, Mayte Garcia.

Who tragically was born with Pfeiffer syndrome.

And they made the decision to take the baby off a respirator after eight days.

There's multiple people who told me that based on Prince's brain, he basically almost felt that he was being punished for his sins.

People had issues with how he treated people.

He was emotionally abusive.

He was physically abusive, you know, in very specific, I'll say for how it was reported in one instance.

The point is like this all weighed on him.

And so this sort of dramatic life event, he thought partially he was responsible.

But like the way that certain people, maybe the estate is characterizing sort of, oh, the film's bad or the film's this, it's negative.

I'm like, there's a point.