It's not just the effect of technology on the environment on religion on the economic structure on society on politics etc. It's that everything now exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life.

Religion may be defined thus: a belief in and homage rendered to existences unseen and causes unknown.

How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer but art is very self-referential whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence.

If God existed and if He cared for humankind He would never have given us religion.

My sense of religion is Einstein's sense of relativity. I don't believe in God. I believe that energy never dies. So the possibility exists that you might be breathing in some other form of Moses or Buddha or Muhammad or Bobby Kennedy or Roosevelt or Martin Luther King or Jesus.

Existentialism is about being a saint without God being your own hero without all the sanction and support of religion or society.

I firmly believe that the mission of religion in the 21st century must be to contribute concretely to the peaceful coexistence of humankind.

Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face some side of God.

9/11 was a deliberate carefully planned evil act of the long-waged war on the West by Koran-inspired soldiers of Allah around the world. They hated us before George W. Bush was in office. They hated us before Israel existed. And the avengers of the religion of perpetual outrage will keep hating us.

Even if it were proven that God didn't exist Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.

I think when you're trying to produce a relationship on screen that doesn't actually exist perhaps sometimes there's a temptation to look at each other more to touch each other more.

There's a really unique relationship between a single parent and their child. Marriages so easily break up. There's kind of this temporary deal about marriages. That's one of the things that makes it stressful and that's something that's nonexistent in a parent-child relationship.

My relationship with my father is pretty non-existent.

I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.

A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.

Once you accept the existence of God - however you define him however you explain your relationship to him - then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.

I think if you're in a committed relationship unless you have some sort of an understanding monogamy is something that should exist.