I'm not embarrassed about the novels I wrote when I was younger, but I couldn't write them today because of my religion.

When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.

I'm fascinated with all kinds of religion, but I'm not committed to any specific one.

I could almost say it is my religion. I guess that sounds pretentious, but I want to live and breathe cinema.

The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion.

Neither the wording of the amendment itself nor common practice challenged the widely held belief that government guaranteed freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment, and to go out into the wilderness where all is experiment, and spiritual life begins again.

What use is revelation or religion if it doesnt change anything?

I just think Texas and that whole Bible Belt section is so, like, corporate. And I don't agree with organized religion in that respect.

Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.