I know we didn't make an anti-Semitic film. This is what the Gospels are. And it's none of my business what other people think of me.
Anything that I undergo, I look at as redemptive suffering.
Every day I'm trying to be more humble and how do you do that? I guess, every day, we have mass. Every day, I pray the rosary. That's what I do.
Everyone was thinking it was going to be a bust. I felt redeemed.
No, the people standing before Christ and Pilate during the judgment scene do not condemn an entire race for the death of Christ anymore than the actions of Mussolini condemn all Italians, or the heinous crimes of Stalin condemn all Russians.
I was freezing in that loincloth.