Until a man has found God, he begins at no beginning, and works to no end.

- Filmmaker H.G. Wells

The great commission tells us to go into all the world and all the world is going to the movies.

-T.D Jakes

It was catechetical art. They were advertisements to convince people to convert. 

- Vatican archaeologist Fabristo Bisconti when asked on why art in Italy’s ancient catacombs repeatedly depicts the same Biblical stories of salvation.

It is my opinion that art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship. It severed an umbilical cord... In former days the artist remained unknown and his work was to the glory of God...
Today the individual has become the highest form and the greatest bane of artistic creation.

- Filmmaker Extraordinaire Ingmar Bergman, The Seventh Seal, introduction

…that your ways may be known on earth, your salvation among all nations.

- King David, Psalm 67:2

The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact. The old myth of the Dying God, without ceasing to be myth, comes down from the heaven of legend and imagination to the earth of history. It happens – at a particular date, in a particular place, followed by definable historical consequences. We pass from a Balder or an Osiris, dying nobody knows when or where, to a historical Person crucified (it is all in order) under Pontius Pilate. By becoming fact it does not cease to be myth: that is the miracle… To be truly Christian we must both assent to the historical fact and also receive the myth (fact though it has become) and with the same imaginative embrace we accord to all myths. … God is more than a god, not less; Christ is more than Balder, not less. We must not be ashamed of the mythical radiance resting on our theology. We must not be nervous about ‘parallels’ and ‘Pagan Christs’: they ought to be there – it would be a stumbling block if they weren’t. We must not, in false spirituality, withhold our imaginative welcome.

- C.S. Lewis, Myth Become fact

He increasingly sounded wistful notes about the disappearance of the Hollywood he knew in his prime. “The middle ground is now gone,” Mr. Pollack said in a discussion with Shimon Peres in the fall 1998 issue of New Perspectives Quarterly. He added, with a nod to a fellow filmmaker: “It is not impossible to make mainstream films which are really good. Costa-Gavras once said that accidents can happen.”

- Sidney Pollack, reported MICHAEL CIEPLY, NYT Obit May 26th, 2008

Today's younger generation is eager to create culture, but too often think of this as a tactical strategic move ~ get more Christians in film, music etc. But what will they produce when they get there if they are lacking in the spiritual and intellectual weightiness from which great, lasting work springs?-

- Dick Staub, Kindlings Muse, July 25, 2008

One aspect about film (for good or bad) – it has a lasting characteristic and can on and on. And for many cases, years and years - even after we are gone. It can enter many places we can not. It can be viewed many times in the most remote of locations. People in the privacy of their own homes, in theaters, and in front of computers can see and begin a discovery for truth for themselves.

- Anonymous