father morris will argue with me in a minute, right? no, you agree with me? all right. and this is what you do in the movie. you take big biblical stories, jesus walking on water, jesus saying to peter, i ll make you a fisher of men. the last supper, the crucifixion. you go through, you don t tell the whole story but you told snippet s and put it all together. how did this decision-making process come about? just so you know we were only slightly into the series of making the bible series. and roma said mark, this should be a big movie. this should be seen in community on the big screen. and we decided okay. had no idea how we would get it
framers started? well, we are naturalized americans, we have been here like 25 years now. our kids are americans. the nation, built on the bible and built on free enterprise. liberals hate when you say this is a judeo-christian country. they don t like to hear that. what about people of other religions? look, i experience this every day. i believe that america was founded on judeo-christian principles. well, for sure, it was. and also traveling for so many months, so many good people who are so vibrant. i felt god is very much alive. jesus is very much alive in this nation. it is almost like we did on the election tour or something, city by city by city, we re going to elect jesus. well, i think certainly if you turn the news on you would think there is nothing but bad news everywhere. there is a lot of it, drugs, poverty, food stamps, people are struggling. i understand, but i still think there needs to be more noise for the good guys. and there are good people doing good
we don t think so. i think what the bible series did in this upcoming movie son of god it almost gave people permission to come up and talk openly about their love of god. and that is 400 employees. we don t know everybody and certainly don t know what they re thinking personally. but as a result, the bible series, at least 50 came up to me privately and said mr. burnett, thank you so much for making the movie. it meant so much for my family. it is really giving we thought oh, we re going to get searched. the tsa guy, we said what is wrong? he said nothing, i m just thanking you for the bible. and the tsa adventures, did that allow you the freedom to just pursue the passion? this other stuff, is it less than a business than the
father morris will argue with me in a minute, right? no, you agree with me? but you and this is what you do in the movie. you take big biblical stories, jesus walking on water. jesus saying to peter, i ll make you a fisher of men. the last supper. the crucifixion. you go through. you don t tell the whole story but you told snippets and put it altogether. how did this decision-making process come about? just so you know we were only slightly into the series of making the bible series. and roma said mark, this should be a big movie. this should be seen in community
his heart. father morris will argue with me in a minute, right? no, you agree with me? but you and this is what you do in the movie. you take big biblical stories, jesus walking on water. jesus saying to peter, i ll make you a fisher of men. the last supper. the crucifixion. you go through. you don t tell the whole story but you told snippets and put it altogether. how did this decision-making process come about? just so you know we were only slightly into the series of making the bible series. and roma said mark, this should be a big movie. this should be seen in community on the big screen. and we decided okay. had no idea how we would get it distributed. we started making it. and we knew the responsibility, sean, of that. we had done about 30 versions over a year just trying to get