Joseph Fiennes Quotes

I choose this story above all others because it's a story I'm struggling to end.

If they had connived a scheme, and Christ had not been raised from the dead, where would have been the hardest place on the face of the earth to convince anyone? In Jerusalem.

I don't like characters that are left being jerks at the end of the movie.

The supernatural birth of Christ, his miracles, his resurrection and ascension, remain eternal truths, whatever doubts may be cast on their reality as historical facts.

Here is the amazing thing about Easter; the Resurrection Sunday for Christians is this, that Christ in the dying moments on the cross gives us the greatest illustration of forgiveness possible.

The ending is really the most important part of the movie. If the first hour and 20 minutes is terrific and the last ten minutes stinks, everybody walks out of the theatre and says: 'That was a lousy movie!'

I'd said no to directing 'Snowtown' a few times and was quite scared of it, but I saw a story there that was worth telling.

The chief end for which He lived and died was to provide eternal redemption for mankind.

I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene….No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus.

Film begins with DW Griffith and ends with Abbas Kiarostami.

Don't the great tales never end?" "No, they never end as tales," said Frodo. "But the people in them come, and go when their part's ended. Our part will end later – or sooner.

At the end of the day, the end of the movie is sort of ambiguous - it's whatever you want it to be.

Christ's crucifixion was on a hill, by a road, where everybody who passed by could not only see his pain, but also his shame. It was not done in a shadow, hidden away somewhere.

It's always hard to be away and relocate. When you relocate for a film, there's an end in sight.

My job is going to be to direct the film - I'm going to do it. And that's where my job ends.

Considering how pervasive interracial marriage is, certainly in American society, it is rare we get to see it depicted on film.

If you watch a film from beginning to end, with no women in it, it's really difficult.

The Christian idea of 'putting on Christ' is the whole of Christianity.

Welcome, welcome, cross of Christ, if Christ be with it.

Theres a certain truth that you do end up making the same film again and again so if you vary the genre you have a chance of breaking that cycle.

Sure. Some of the reviews have been very flattering, but the series is not finished yet. The end needs to be as strong as the beginning.

There’s a long and sacred history of the use of X to symbolize the name of Christ, and from its origin, it has meant no disrespect.

The cross of Jesus Christ represents the intersection of God's love and God's holiness.

And it seems to me a blasphemy to say that the Holy Spirit is Love. In the Old Testament it is an Eagle: in the New it is a Dove.Christ insists on the Dove: but in His supreme moments He includes the Eagle.

It’s so much more romantic to end a story up with a funeral than a wedding.