According to Liam Neeson, director Martin Scorsese is "intimidating" on the set and "he requires absolute silence...if he hears one tiny sound, it shatters it for him."
The film was screened early to 400 Jesuit priests in Rome.
In Martin Scorsese's own words, Silence (2016) is about "the necessity of belief fighting the voice of experience."
The film's premiere was held at the Vatican.