Jim Caviezel Summary and Analysis

Jim Caviezel came from an athletic family and strove to be a good basketball player. Jim worked harder than everyone else, always afraid someone else would be better than he was. Jim learned to live in the moment even while training for every conceivable situation. Jim also learned to reinvent himself through intense focus in order to be a success in Hollywood. Jim credits sports with helping him film The Passion of the Christ, despite being injured and ill.

Jim Caviezel learned focus and intensity from sports, and those things helped him not only to be success in Hollywood, but to get through the very difficult task of filming a movie while injured and ill. Jim learned how to train hard and how to prepare, another set of lessons that have continued to help him.