Best Quote by Lisa Randall

Religion is close to theatre; much of its power comes from the effects of staging and framing.

— Teju Cole

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

A musical, like most religions, provides the audience or followers with a sense of belonging. Religious services, on the other hand, with their staged…

— Lisa Randall

Organized religion and musicals present tenets to live by that don't entirely make sense but, on the whole, make people who believe them secure,…

— Lisa Randall

Religion and atheism will both survive it [the musical Jesus Christ Superstar by Time Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber].

— Stanley Kauffmann

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

— Jess Walter

“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

There's no reason the story of Christianity wouldn't be more prevalent in film and television considering the audience size who love and believe the…

— Mark Burnett

“...On television, religion, like everything else, is presented, quite simply and without apology, as an entertainment. Everything that makes religion an historic, profound, sacred…

— Neil Postman

And no wonder; for the new technique of "subliminal projection," as it was called, was intimately associated with mass entertainment, and in the life…

— Aldous Huxley

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

Indeed the influence of music on the development of religion is a subject which would repay a sympathetic study.

— James G. Frazer