Close Quote by 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

To me, a theater is a kind of a sacred space. It needs a kind of ceremony, like what happens when you consecrate a…

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

Theatre is, at its roots, some very brave people mutually consenting to a make believe world, with nothing but language to rest on.

— Sarah Ruhl

To me, theater is a spiritual experience. Probably the reason I do theater is it, I guess, comes the closest to feeling like God,…

— Kate Arrington

The theatre is your pulpit - it is your church - and you want to be a priest in your church, and that's what…

— Steven Berkoff

I believe more in the power of drama than in the power of religion.

— Tony Harrison

I'm a sort of political person, and I feel that there's a kind of ineradicably political dimension to theater, to all theater, whether it's…

— Tony Kushner

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

I think theater and church are so relatable because it's traditional call-and-response in the way that an audience interacts with the actors.

— Danielle Brooks

Of course, ministers look upon theaters as rival attractions, and most of their hatred is born of business views. They think people ought to…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

For many of the most powerful people in the entertainment business, hostility to organized religion goes so deep and burns so intensely that they…

— Michael Medved

“This is not a place where theater is a tool for telling stories about God. This is a stage where the craft of theater…

— Aaron Hartzler