Art Quote by Christopher Bollen

For a while in the twenties and thirties, art was talked about as a substitute for religion; now B movies are a substitute for…

— Pauline Kael

movies have mirrored our moods and myths since the century began. They have taken on some of the work of religion.

— Jennifer Stone

“Weren’t movies his generation’s faith anyway- its true religion? Wasn’t the theatre our temple, the one place we enter separately but emerge from two…

— Jess Walter

Making films has been kind of my way of getting closer to God.

— Corbin Bernsen

The cinema has done more for my spiritual life than the church. My ideas of fame, success and beauty all originate from the big…

— John Updike

Cinema to me is like a religion. If I was going to have a religion it would be cinema.

— Ron Perlman

There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that…

— Vera Farmiga

When videotape came so a lot of movies that I do have a kind of afterlife in video. Things where movies that I do…

— Christopher Walken

“In a cultural moment defined by screen media, it is remarkable how ignorant most people—particularly people of faith—are about how screen stories work. We…

— Douglas M. Beaumont

I think that films or indeed any art work should be made in a way that they are infinitely viewable; so that you could…

— Peter Greenaway

Movies can be instruments of enlightenment.

— Marianne Williamson

Films made in the spirit of the past continued to be made.

— Andrzej Wajda