It seems that once you achieve something large, the target on your back grows. But I always want to look at life as the glass is half full versus half empty. My father taught me this at an early age - that God is faithful (Romans 8:28), and that in the midst of hardship or attack, God has your back.

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Every hardship you endure and every failure you withstand could very well be the stepping stone to success and the realization of your God-given dream.

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For whatever reason, that dream I had of going to Hollywood never went away. But when I got to LA at just 19 years of age, my faith was the foundation that gave me the confidence that I needed to believe that it would all work out and was a reason for the open and closed doors. Today, my faith is the center of my career.

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God is faithful. Trust Him and you'll be amazed to see what He will do.

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Believe and trust because God is faithful! I'll leave you with this: a dream deferred is not a dream denied. For God can bless you with a dream bigger than the one you ever had for yourself. He did it for me, and He can do it for you!

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If you can make a living doing what you love, that is a blessing.

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You have a wide array of people that are watching something, and you cannot please everyone at the same time. Half the people will love it; half the people will hate it. Half the people won't see it.

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When you buy a ticket, you're basically voting for whatever you see.

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We have a lot of relationships to the gatekeepers who can rally their people to go to the movie theater. It's a trusting relationship.

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We created Pure Flix to make uplifting and inspiring content on a consistent, ongoing basis, so audiences would truly have an alternative to what Hollywood puts out. Pure Flix produces faith and family films, so the audience is the entire family.

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'Evening Shade' was such an eye-opening experience. I was 19 when I went on that show. I had barely had an acting class. So as Burt Reynolds continued to bring me back for the next three years, I learned so much from him and all the other legends that were on the show.

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I think there is always an ebb and flow in Hollywood about what is current.

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Pure Flix makes evangelistic films, but we also make family films. I think the viewer wants to see quality entertainment that the whole family can watch, and many nonbelievers watch our films because they can watch with their family and young kids.

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I saw one movie in theatres in the first 18 years of my life.

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Coming to Hollywood at 19 and living in a single apartment with one other guy on Venice Beach was a massive contrast to my upbringing.

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I wear this label of a Christian filmmaker proudly.

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I want to live my life the way Jesus does - I want to love people.

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Probably from, like, my freshman year of high school, I had this desire to perform and also be involved in the show business industry.

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My parents... has always wanted all their kids to go to at least one year of Bible college after high school. I always knew that I was on my way to Moody Bible Institute when I graduated high school.

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Growing up in a Mennonite background, there's not much media.

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Mennonites are very conservative. They don't drink, dance, smoke, go to movies. I grew up in a very conservative faith-based community.

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