According to Mel Gibson, his entire career has been leading him to the creation of Passion, a film about the life and death of Jesus Christ done entirely in Latin and Aramaic. He also said that he felt the Holy Ghost working through him and that he hopes the movie will have "he power to evangelize."

These comments were made when he previewed the move in Colorado Springs - a city chosen because it is a national hub for evangelical Christianity and Gibson wanted to ensure that his movie was "acceptable" to evangelical leaders, like those at Focus on the Family (Gibson is a Catholic, so it's interesting that he would seek the approval of evangelicals rather than Catholic leaders).

Gibson has also stated that he went to mass every morning during the shooting of the film because "we had to be squeaky clean just working on this," and, furthermore, that there were agnostics and Muslims working on the set who converted to Christianity (no word on what version, though).

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