“As I listened to this preacher tell the story of Hosea and Gomer, I did something I’d never done before. I looked critically at the depiction of this biblical character, Gomer, and I thought to myself, ‘This doesn’t sound like a real human being.’”

“I started to feel a chill in my spine, like I’d stumbled across a spot where my script’s story had already happened and, rather than writing it, I was uncovering it, brushing back the frost and frozen clay to find someone else’s very real reality. I knew then that the movie had to take place in Oklahoma.”

“For a long time, we prodded and pleaded and prayed our film would make it. Along the way, we learned a lot of important lessons, some of which I’m going to share with you now.”