On his decision to cut a scene in which Caiaphas says "his blood be on us and on our children" soon Pontius Pilate washes his hands of Jesus: "I wanted it in. My brother said I was wimping out if I didn`t include it. But, man, if I included that in there, they`d be coming after me at my house. They`d come to kill me."
- Mel GibsonPontius Pilate was the first great censor and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship
- Ben Lindsey