When I Was Offered The Part In

'how Do You Balance The Creative With The Biblical?' One Could Pick Up The Scripture And Read It To Oneself And You Would Be Communing Directly With That Information. As Soon As You Go Into Film, As Soon As There's A Camera, And There's An Angle, And There's Lighting, And There's Editing, You're Into The Adaptation.

He Challenge Is Finding The Modern Conduit For The Audience, Having Fun And Really Looking At The Duality Of This Particular Character, That Is Both Devil And Angel, And On The Cusp Of Losing Control Of The Pagan Background, To This Newfangled Religion Called Christianity. There's A Great Backdrop There, And Just A Whole Dark Side With The Magic.

I Like The Fact That We're Stripping The Icons Away. They're The Wikileaks For The Age That We're Revealing, With The Transparency Of The Characters. We're Unearthing The Truth Beyond Or Underneath The Myth. I Love That Aspect.

So Getting That Balance Between What Is Honoring Scripture And The Word And Also Acknowledging The Fact That By The Virtue Of Putting It On Film There's Going To Be A Variation And Adaptation, I Mean, It's A Fine Dance And A Balance. Our Producers And Directors Have Worked So Hard To Get That Right And I'm Really Proud. I Think It's A Pretty Good Job.

It All Felt Like A Terribly Long Time. It Would Have Meant That I Had To Make Five Movies In Five Years And If You Don't Like The Movies, Too Bad. I Guess I Just Wanted My Freedom, And I Think My Life Has Been Incredibly Enhanced As A Result.