Ralph Lovin’ On Us

Cool guy, and big-budget movie Executive Producer, Ralph Winter is featured in an interview this week on Christianity Today online.

Ralph has nice words for Act One in the piece, as follows…

Q: When you talk about the need for Christians in Hollywood, are you talking about screenwriters, primarily?

Winter: In writing and directing, we just don’t have the material. We don’t have the talent. It takes time to develop and cultivate material and get it out there. Some of the movies we’ve been able to do at Fox are due to having some Christians in that organization who stir up that stuff inside the organization. We need Christians inside the studio.

We need more Christian agents who are out there developing and finding material, cultivating it, [people] with moderate integrity. We need good examples in all areas of business.

The people at Act One, like Barbara Nicolosi, are doing that. Scott Derrickson has written for Jerry Bruckheimer, Wim Wenders, and Martin Scorsese. Now he’s written and directed his own piece, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, with Laura Linney and Tom Wilkinson, and it’s good. He’s one of the guys who is the epitome of up-and-coming directors. We need more like him.

It’s a thrill to have a man like Ralph say nice thing in public about us. He is someone whose good opinion I value very much.