Then if your movie clicks with real audiences, you'll be sucked into some sort of Hollywood orbit. It's a devil of a place where the only religion that really counts is box office.

When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.

I believe there is a moral sense and a global ethic that commands attention from people of every religion and every faith, and people of no faith. But I think what's new is that we now have the capacity to communicate instantaneously across frontiers right across the world.

The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.

In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees.

I subscribe to no religion. But I believe that in the creation of art, there can be moments of God.

I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion.

Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life.

Well, religion has been passed down through the years by stories people tell around the campfire. Stories about God, stories about love. Stories about good spirits and evil spirits.

History is the key to everything: politics, religion, even fashion.