MARVIN: I’m Marvin Handleman, the Producer.

CLIVE: And I’m Clive Walton, the Director.

MARVIN: We're what you call a filmmaking team. That is two or more people who--

CLIVE: Excuse me, if I could cut in for a second. "Film" is a word I try and shy away from. Film is something you buy at a drugstore. It tends to give one the feeling of “ordinary." Which is not what our films are.

MARVIN: Certainly not.

INTERVIEWER: How did the two of you meet?

MARVIN: Clive and I first met working on a movie in 1977, Clive was an actor...

CLIVE: But of course what I really wanted to do was to direct.

MARVIN: I was a production assistant trying to break into the business. It was 1977 on a movie called "The Airport." You've probably never seen it, it ran into some legal trouble and was never released.

CLIVE: They said it was too much like "Airport." The producers said, "No, no, it's "The Airport," but..

MARVIN: Anyway, we both wanted to make movies, so we teamed up, wrote a script, got a little financing,...

CLIVE: This man could get money from a turnip!

MARVIN: And we made our first film "Friday Night Boogie." Kind of a "Saturday Night Fever" meets... well, meets "Saturday Night Fever."

CLIVE: This was back in the early eighties and unfortunately we took a little too much time in pre-production and by the time it was done, the Disco craze was over.

MARVIN: But thank God for Canada, cause the film was a big hit there. They're always at least four years behind.

CLIVE: Yeah, they're just now discovering junk bonds.

MARVIN: Anyway we made a little money and started this company. Caliber films. Which is a word that is synonymous with quality.

CLIVE: We wanted to show people, the "Industry," that you could make quality films at a low cost.

CLIVE: Now, "Nude Ninjas" was our first film and it really made a statement. It was about the difficulties young women face, in what is predominately a male dominated profession.

MARVIN: Think about it, professional Ninjas. They’re almost all male.

MARVIN: Now, "Dial S for Sex" did very well overseas. You'd be surprised how well our films do in third world countries.

CLIVE: "Dial S" did especially well in Bangladesh, where phones were just beginning to have widespread use.

MARVIN: But that was then, and this is now. What we really want to talk about is our current project, "...And God Spoke."

INTERVIEWER: Ok, tell me about it.

CLIVE: It's a film based on the most wonderful of all the religious books, the Bible.

MARVIN: And if you're going to do a movie based on a book, that's the one to use. I mean, from a producer's stand point, you can’t lose, cause you don't have to pay anyone. I don't think. I mean, all those guys are dead, right? And plus, you get like twelve books for the price of one.

CLIVE: I actually think it's more than twelve.

MARVIN: Even better. Plus, it's an all time best seller. We're talking a four billion person target audience times six bucks a ticket. That's one hell of a market.

CLIVE: It's going to be what we in the business call an Epic. Lots of extras, huge sets, big stars, exotic locations.

MARVIN: And awards up the wazoo. People are going to be lining up to see this one, believe me. Like when "Star Wars" came out. Lines around the block. Not that our film is going to be anything like "Star Wars," it's about the Bible.

CLIVE: So don't expect any wookies.

INTERVIEWER: When did the two of you decide to make this film?

CLIVE: We've wanted to make this film ever since we met. To put something as beautiful and timeless as the Bible on film, well there is no comparison.

MARVIN: We originally wanted to do the whole sha-bang. From "In the beginning" all the way to "And they lived happily ever after." But unfortunately the script came in at over two thousand pages.

CLIVE: Yeah, so we had to do a little cutting.

MARVIN: We mostly just lost the depressing stuff. Job, Deuteronomy.

CLIVE: And Revelations. The script's down to 120 now, and that's a little more do-able.

INTERVIEWER: How long will it take to make the film?

CLIVE: Well, we’re scheduled for a four month shoot, but hopefully we can bring it in early...

MARVIN: And under budget.