“[Carson Phillips is] a kid who refuses to go down. He’s a kid that gets tortured by all the kids at school—endlessly and mercilessly. But he refuses to disintegrate and it makes him stronger and he’s sort of impenetrable. And it’s also sort of heartbreaking. It will make you cry.” - Allison Janney

“I hope that people are just inspired by this movie, because I think that a lot of movies that are made for kids of our generation are just about kids that wanna get laid or wanna do drugs or wanna be cool or popular, and my character doesn’t want any of those things. [Carson Phillips] just wants to get the hell out of this town. So I hope it just inspires kids to keep going and use their voice.” - Chris Colfer

[Photo credit: DLGR, EW]