David A. R. White
David A. R. White
David Andrew Roy White, also known as David A. R. White, is an American actor, screenwriter and producer. He grew up in a small farming town that was located outside of Dodge City, Kansas. He is a co-founder of Pure Flix Entertainment, a distribution and production company specializing in Christian themed movies. The company's first film was Hidden Secrets. He is married to actress and producer Andrea Logan, who played the role of his wife in the 2009 movie In...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActor
Date of Birth12 May 1970
CountryUnited States of America
'Old Fashioned' can expect strong interest because it taps into a universal human longing.
Probably from, like, my freshman year of high school, I had this desire to perform and also be involved in the show business industry.
It's important for us to certainly cast some Christian actors who can speak to our audience when we market the films, but obviously we don't discriminate. So our crew and our cast, the beliefs don't really matter.
You make a product, and you put it out, and you do it with as much excellence and also wisdom as possible, and then it's the Lord that drives it and determines where it will go.
I saw one movie in theatres in the first 18 years of my life.
I think there is always an ebb and flow in Hollywood about what is current.
I want to live my life the way Jesus does - I want to love people.
I wear this label of a Christian filmmaker proudly.
We have a lot of relationships to the gatekeepers who can rally their people to go to the movie theater. It's a trusting relationship.
We partner with movies that stand for more than the latest bestseller.
As an actor, you've worked very hard, and you've been doing this for 20-some years, and William Morris was never interested - or any studio, either - in your company or as an actor, and then 'God's Not Dead' happens, and now everyone calls you.
'Evening Shade' was such an eye-opening experience. I was 19 when I went on that show. I had barely had an acting class. So as Burt Reynolds continued to bring me back for the next three years, I learned so much from him and all the other legends that were on the show.
The majority of the time, we try to hire the best people that we can get just to make the best films, and I think that's something that Pure Flix has been known for the movies we produce on the budgets that we do... our production values have elevated this genre.
The nice thing about building up your own studio is if Hollywood decides to hate faith-based films, it doesn't matter to us. We have an audience and continue to serve that audience.