Fox News Channel host, Gretchen Carlson, is praising the work environment at the network that she says allows her to express her values. She made her comments at a faith-based entertainment summit in Beverly Hills, California.

At the recent “Purpose: The Family Entertainment & Faith-Based Summit,” Carlson said she thinks it is wonderful to be able to stand-up for values that she’s embraced most of her life.

Carlson, who hosts FNC’s “The Real Story,” makes her movie debut in Persecuted, a Christian-based thriller, in which she plays the role of a TV show anchor.

“I think there is something about being over 40 where you don’t really care what other people think about it anymore,” she tells OneNewsNow. “I’m well past that now. I have two children and I want them to grow up in a world like I did. So I think it is really important to be part of a movie that focuses on those values.”

As a member of the Fox News lineup, Carlson contends it’s not only the first media organization where she’s felt comfortable expressing her values and even feels encouraged to do so.

“Since I’ve been there the last nine years, it’s just been a really wonderful place to be,” she says. “People come up to me on the street and say, ‘Thank you so much for talking about your morals and values. That’s what we respect.’ It’s not necessarily about all the news stories that I’m doing on a daily basis – it’s more about the other messaging about my life. And that means a lot to me. I think my grandfather would be proud. He was a minister.”

Carlson moderated a summit panel of film producers about the nuts and bolts of how to turn a great idea into a fully formed and released film project as well as discussing the growing faith-based movie landscape.