Then if your movie clicks with real audiences, you'll be sucked into some sort of Hollywood orbit. It's a devil of a place where the only religion that really counts is box office.

When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.

I believe there is a moral sense and a global ethic that commands attention from people of every religion and every faith, and people of no faith. But I think what's new is that we now have the capacity to communicate instantaneously across frontiers right across the world.

The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.

In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees.