For Catholic priest, a call to create art

Weinstein was unfazed upon learning about Arens’s background when they first met over lunch. “John turned to me before we ordered and said, ‘I gotta say something: I’m a priest,’ ” Weinstein recalled. “I felt absolutely no reaction whatsoever. Having been in the business of film, you interact with all kinds of people -- straight, gay, whatever their religions are -- it doesn’t matter. All colors, creeds and cultures come together, and they become family. To me, it just creates more interest.” Weinstein's 'Untitled' depicts a scene from the streets of New York City.
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By Dan Adams, Globe Correspondent
Weinstein was unfazed upon learning about Arens’s background when they first met over lunch. “John turned to me before we ordered and said, ‘I gotta say something: I’m a priest,’ ” Weinstein recalled. “I felt absolutely no reaction whatsoever. Having been in the business of film, you interact with all kinds of people -- straight, gay, whatever their religions are -- it doesn’t matter. All colors, creeds and cultures come together, and they become family. To me, it just creates more interest.”

Weinstein's "Untitled" depicts a scene from the streets of New York City.