- Art is a ministry and ministry is an art.
- A true independent film is 100% control, the final cut is mine. I love controlling the project, doing only as much as I want, the way that I want. The thrill is seeing something in my head come to life, I am a co-creator with God as an act of worship.
- Hollywood is more forgiving than the church.
- My film "Sister Aimee" was a case of art imitating life. I made the movie as an allegory for my own experiences. I wanted to make an honest film telling what I know firsthand about evangelists and the adulation of the personalities that are conduits for the Spirit.
- Inside me, I feel like a kid playing and using my imagination. I'm shocked my art is selling so well, and I'm grateful for the love, prayers, and support of my family, friends, and fans. I wouldn't be doing so well if it wasn't for them and the creative collaborators who work with me in Hollywood. I encourage everyone who loves what I do, that you too can connect with the Creator and with creativity. God loves you unconditionally. He wraps up talents in the bundle of every baby that is born. We are all created in the image of the Master Artist. The talents that we have are gifts. When we take those talents and make something, it is our gift back.
- People are like screenplays. The best ones aren't boring and predictable and have interesting twists.
- [on Canaan Land (2020) ] This film is my coming out as a former fundamentalist who can no longer subscribe to the beliefs and practices I did before. My story is my repentance and the character I play repents. I'm going to publicly challenge the biggest names in religion to repent and give back the money they've ripped off from the poor.
- [on Baseball's Last Hero: 21 Clemente Stories (2013) ] Roberto Clemente wasn't in the game for money, but for love. In an age in which baseball is so tainted with cheating and dishonesty, kids need a true hero.
- [on Canaan Land (2020) ] I will not be bullied into silence by fundamentalist critics and multimillionaire televangelists trying to stop my film. Their criticism is only helping market my movie because people are talking. I refuse to let them define me or my film, I will finish Canaan Land and show it to all of you willing to watch. They help me because they compliment Canaan Land as something worthy of being talked about. And they are helping market it by discussing it and gossiping about me and the movie. They are worried my film will shake things up. I would rather be criticized by the modern day Pharisees than be ignored. Artists with integrity will not be ignored. They may be attacked, criticized, misunderstood, but because they challenge things, and stir things up, their work is unignored. And this is the opposite of the insipid tripe that is often put out as a faith-based film.
- [on Aimee Semple McPherson (2006) ] This movie came out of brokenness. Had I not been broken, I could not have made this film. Sister McPherson's story is a story of total grace, just like mine, and grace is what gives us sinners hope. As I made this story of a wounded healer, I received healing for my own wounds. I told my story by telling Sister Aimee's story , so the film is an allegory for my life and experience. This movie is part of my amends for trying to fix the world without fixing myself. The film asks a question: Who heals the healer?
- [on Aimee Semple McPherson (2006) ] I was inspired stylistically by European filmmakers like Fellini and Bergman. Bergman's close-ups of the hands and faces of the two women in Persona gave me a sense of their inner loneliness. I wanted to make our film character-driven, because I knew our movie would not be the epic with a cast of ten thousand extras, but rather an intimate character study, an honest exploration of the pain behind a spiritual healer.
- [on Baseball's Last Hero: 21 Clemente Stories (2013) ] Jamie Nieto was Roberto. There were moments when I was literally overcome with emotion watching him. I felt like I was privileged to go back into a time machine as a little boy and see Roberto again.
- Over the course of my life, I've been involved in religion, politics, and art. Of the three, I've found artists can be the most truthful.
- Our film 'Lucy and the Lake Monster' has a deeper subtext, even though its a children's story. Champ, the sea serpent, is an allegory for God. The pure in heart, like Lucy, see Champ as good. Others teach Champ is a monster for mercenary purposes, the way manipulative ministers scare people today.
- If Christ prayed, 'Forgive them, Father, for they know not what they do,' as he was crucified, I choose to forgive all too.
- Our children's film and book series 'Lucy and the Lake Monster' tells the story of a 9 year-old orphan girl and her grandpa searching for a sea serpent in Lake Champlain. They battle bullies, naysayers, and mercenary forces seeking to exploit them. Their search is an allegory for humanity's spiritual search.
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