Cards Quote by Richard Corliss

Honestly, I think a good film is spiritual, regardless of whether its subject is faith.

— Vera Farmiga

“It is the gritty portrayal of the darker side of life that often causes Hollywood’s unpopularity among Christian viewers, but it is the idyllic…

— Douglas M. Beaumont

The greatest movie would be the movie that gave the audience a cathartic feeling of transcendence.

— Nick Nolte

“It is ironical that, in the very field in which Science has claimed superiority to Theology, for example - in the abandoning of dogma…

— Herbert Dingle

The great thing for me about 'The Resurrection of Gavin Stone' is it's a throwback to the old fashioned Hollywood movie that you can…

— D. B. Sweeney

Transcendence is something between a metaphor and a miracle.

— Mason Cooley

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

The whole dimension of religious belief requires transcendence, it requires going beyond what you can establish rationally.

— George Coyne

“Transcendence is when God exists outside space and time while immanence is when He is present in time and space. Travel between them and…

— JOEL NYARANGI AKOYA

It's very difficult to live with religious ideas. I can't compare religion to the movies. I can fuse them.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

“I was brought up Christian, then I was agnostic and then I realized I was atheist... This movie [Agora] is about fundamentalism and hate.”

— Alejandro Amenábar

I'd say that 'Tree of Life' is not a Christian so much as a spiritual film.

— Brad Pitt