Michael Landon jr. On Christian Movie-Making

Christianity Today interviewed Michael Landon, jr. Landon’s statement at the end of the interview article is interesting:

CT: Christians want truth in movies, but not always the depiction of reality.

M.L.: Yes. With a Christian audience, sometimes there is hypocrisy. The same people who will see a secular PG-13 or R-rated movie have a different standard if there is violence or sexuality or bad language in a Christian film. I don’t get that. How is anybody going to tell a really good urban story if these kids from the streets are saying, “Oh, gosh darn!”? Sometimes I think how cool it would be not to be a Christian and have no boundaries to telling a story. But that will never work with me. Never.