“And I think that, for those of us that aren’t religious, we need, or I need, art that stimulates the same kind of thinking about what it is to be a mensch, or a good man, things like that.”

I always have a backlog of like seven movies that I want to make.

I’ve always loved movies, since I was a little kid, but I never wanted to be part of that industry. It always seemed horrifying, the way films were made.

I don’t watch trailers, I like to go into every movie fresh.

Someone once told me that movies are a universal passport. And its true, wherever you go.

Local casting is just something I love doing.

That’s the thing about a folk tale: It is always addressing incredibly key issues about how you should live and what the right thing to do is, which is really what I’m the most interested in – like the questions that religion takes on.

We have the DNA of our Lord Jesus Christ.

We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.

I think the Muslim religious is a little too tight. It doesn’t fit humans. Humans can’t possibly fit into it, so there are a lot of really unhappy people, terribly repressed.

Father knew me not. All my aspirations in life were a sealed book to him, as much as his peculiar religious experiences were to me.

Music goes way back before language does. And music is like the key to a whole spiritual existence which this society doesn’t even talk about. We know it’s there.

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.

I’m not a religious person. I have a one-on-one relationship with God, but I don’t go to church like I should.

I’m not the most religous person in the world, but I think the good Lord up there has blessed me.