I think that's great for Mormon Cinema, because people know that he's Mormon. That rubs off. |
I'm in no way stepping away from Mormonism as a center, as an anchoring element, ... God's Army. |
I'm not in any way trying to genericize the Mormons. The challenge I'm kind of playing with right now is making it deeply Mormon, but at the same time accessible basically to everybody. |
It's not another treatment of a day in the life of LDS missionaries. This time, it's LDS missionaries who are part of a much larger story. It's more of an ensemble film that has characters from different religions, and no religions, and how their lives intertwine in present-day Santa Monica. . . . It's very much designed not to just be accessible to Mormon Christianity, but hopefully embraced by all Christians. |
this deluded sense of making a film that would only appeal to Mormons, but somehow believing it's going to cross over into the mainstream. |
When people saw him here in Utah, I noticed a couple of people say, 'Oh, look who it is,' |