Awful Quote by Michael Novak

Priests and pastors are probably the most stereotyped characters in film and television, and the reason why, I think, is that most people don't…

— Scott Derrickson

If I'm not mistaken, Sigmund Freud said that in every idealisation there's an aggression. Depicting the Pope as a sort of Superman, a star,…

— Pope Francis

You know you're in a bad movie when the Catholic clergy is being played by Jews.

— Cheech Marin

I gotta say, the Catholic Church has churned out a lot of great artists and directors and actors, so if that's all they do,…

— Paul Rust

Catholicism is so steeped in imagery. It's one of the many reasons Catholicism has given birth to so many great filmmakers compared to the…

— Scott Derrickson

Actually, I played Pontius Pilate as nice. An actor spends his life thinking he is Christ, and then he gets to play the character…

— James Nesbitt

Tearing up a picture of the Pope comes under the heading of a Comedy Killer. It kind of breaks the spirit of the evening.

— Lorne Michaels

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

Hollywood movies of the Fifties, like The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur, with their epic clash of pagan and Judeo-Christian cultures, tell more about art…

— Camille Paglia

Even the great bad guys in cinema history, they're likable.

— Balthazar Getty

When media "narratives" about [Pope] Francis get set in concrete, and act as filters bending or distorting (or ignoring) aspects of his vision and…

— George Weigel

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

— Jennifer Stone