G. Willow Wilson Quotes

Rock and roll is my religion.

MTV in general is involved with so many artists - musicians, actors, people in the fashion industry, and art world.

Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

Television wasn't prestigious.

A lot of people who watch DVDs are people who are interested in, if not moviemaking, then creativity in general.

Mum wasn't at all religious, but she thought that going to the theatre was as important a ceremonial, communal experience that a person could have.

Anyone should be able to read comics.

TV in all its ugliness can be a beautiful thing.

I know one thing - if I didn't have TV and theatre and radio, the world would be a much more boring place.

Movies are different from real life.

The atmosphere of Catholicism in Korea is quite different to the way it is practised and perceived in Europe or the U.S.

My family is very religious.

What is normally called religion is what I would tend to call music - participating in music, listening to music, making records and singing.

All Kabul males were given just six weeks to grow a full beard, even though some of the ethnic groups - the Hazaras, for instance - have limited beard growth. More, beards could not be trimmed shorter than a man’s fist. The religious police stood at street corners with scissors cutting off long hair and often beating culprits. Men had to wear their salwars above the ankle and everyone had to say his/her prayers five times a day. All conceivable forms of entertainment were strictly taboo: movies, TV, video, music, dance. Even, kite flying! "Nawroz", the traditional Afghan New Year celebrations, were declared un-Islamic. Nobody was allowed to hang paintings, portraits or photographs in their homes. The tragic truth is that the very idea of culture was alien to the Taliban.

My view on music and the way that it's portrayed is that it's a religion.

Music is never inherently funny!

In some very real way, rock 'n' roll is like a religion to me.

Music and video games go hand in hand.

I don't think that cinema is bigger than family as an institution.

I believe that comics are entirely for entertainment.

If your church is the theatre, New York means a lot - it's a pilgrimage you want to make.

I'm a New Yorker. I'm liberal and open-minded. Things don't really shock me. But I was reading the second-act today and thinking that if you're religious, you could be. But you shouldn't be! You can be extremely religious and have your faith and still be open-minded to art. Because this is art. That's part of the excitement. It literally is "The Jerry Springer Show" on-stage set to beautiful operatic music. That's what's so incredible about it!

Stephen L. Carter coined the phrase 'the culture of disbelief' to describe the prevailing hostility in Western culture toward public expressions of faith.