Scorsese: Christianity is where I find meaning in life
By Mark Ellis, Senior Correspondent for ASSIST News Service
PASADENA, CA (ANS -- February 15, 2017)
-- Academy Award winning director Martin Scorsese spoke at Fuller
Seminary in Pasadena, California, recently after a private screening of
his new film Silence, the formidable saga of Jesuit missionaries in 17th-century Japan based on the novel by Shusaku Endo.
At the screening, Scorsese reflected on his years-long struggle to make the film and its impact on his Christian faith.
“Where
do I go to find the meaning of existence and the meaning of life? For
me, it’s Christianity,” Scorsese told Brehm Center Director Mako
Fujimura (who served as a consultant to the film) and Kutter Callaway,
an assistant. professor of theology and culture at Fuller.
Without
the love and compassion inherent in Christianity, there is little hope
for humanity, he said. “This is the real saving grace of our world, of
our species, really,” he declared.
Scorsese
has been thinking about the book and the film project since 1989.
“Reading over the last 20 years I’ve found authors apologizing for a
Christian attitude, another one saying, ‘This seems disturbingly
Christian.’”
“Is
that getting into the politics of it, or does it mean that compassion
and love for each other is wrong? What is going to happen if we don’t
have that? The species is over,” he said.
Many
years ago, as a student at Cardinal Hayes High School in the Bronx ,
Scorsese’s admiration for a young priest caused him to seriously
consider entering the priesthood, but that gave way to a passion for
cinema.
“If
you haven’t given your life to the calling, if one is not clergy, how
does one express and live a true Christian life? How does one live out
Christianity in daily life? How does one do it?” he asked.
Scorsese
says faith should flow into every aspect of life. “We don’t make
religion something that’s foreign, separate from life, that’s the key,”
he noted.
Photo captions: 1) Martin Scorcese at Fuller Seminary's Brehm Center. 2) Liam Neeson plays Father Ferreira in Silence. (Kerry Brown/Paramount Pictures). 3) Mark Ellis.
About the writer: Mark Ellis is Senior Correspondent for the ASSIST News Service (www.assistnews.net), and is also the the founder of www.GodReports.com,
a website that shares testimonies and videos from the church around the
world to build interest and involvement in world missions. Previously,
Mark co-hosted a TV show called "Windows on the World" with ANS Founder, Dan Wooding, aired on the Holy Spirit Broadcasting Network (http://hsbn.tv/), which is now co-hosted by Dr. Garry Ansdell, Senior Pastor of Hosanna Christian Fellowship in Bellflower, California.
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