Roma Downey and Mark Burnett are the married couple who created "The Bible" miniseries and the recent movie "Son of God," they said have gotten hundreds of emails from long-time believers and new converts revealing that the film has really touched their lives.

"We are flooded with emails from all sources," said Burnett told The Christian Post in an interview yesterday adding. "Nationwide, people are weeping during the crucifixion and the arrest - we're hearing that as he resurrects, people are applauding and cheering in the theaters."

Downey estimated that hundreds of people have reached out them. Due to the large amount of responses, she said that "we put out a call to all of our friends in the community to start gathering that information," but added that "a clearer vision of the impact" will not be seen until around Easter.

"Everybody is profoundly moved by the film," said Downey to CP adding. "I've seen letters from grown men who said they'd never cried at a movie before, but this movie opened their hearts and brought tears."

Downey also emphasized how the film can be used as a method of evangelism.

"We certainly have been encouraging Christians to go see the movie and to bring a friend, perhaps." She explained that "sometimes it's harder to ask someone to go to church with you, but it's easy to ask them to go to the movies," said Downey in an interview with CP yesterday.

Downey also revealed one major difference between "Son of God" and Mel Gibson's "Passion of the Christ", the newer film has more in-depth story. For example, "The Passion" begins in Gethsemane with Jesus' arrest, while "Son of God" shows the audience a glimpse of Jesus Christ's ministry prior to the crucifixion week.

"We get to follow his ministry through the miracles, so by the time he is arrested, I think everyone is so involved in the movie and cares so deeply for him that by the time he's crucified, everyone is very emotional," said Downey to CP.

Burnett agreed with his wife's viewpoint.

"What makes this movie even more emotion is that you spend an hour getting to know Jesus with the disciples," he told CP adding. "By the time he is arrested in Gethsemane it feels far worse."

In "The Bible," some viewers believed the actor who played Satan had a striking resemblance to President Barack Obama.

"I felt that in many ways the project was hijacked for a political agenda," said Downey told CP adding. "I felt very strongly that Jesus was not a Republican, Jesus was not a Democrat, so to use 'Son of God' as a stick to beat somebody with was offensive to me."

Downey further expressed her feelings on deciding to edit Satan out of the film.

"It was with pleasure that I cut the devil out, so that we could continue this dialogue about Jesus, that it would be Jesus we're talking about, and not Satan."

The "Son of God" movie is currently playing in movie theaters.