The Bible has been a bestseller for centuries. Why should I let two thousand years of publicity go to waste?

The Ten Commandments are the charter and guide of human liberty, for there can be no liberty without the law.

Every time I make a picture the critics' estimate of American public taste goes down ten percent.

The greatest art in the world is the art of storytelling.

I make my pictures for people, not for critics.

Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back.

Our modern world defined God as a ‘religious complex’ and laughed at the Ten Commandments as OLD FASHIONED. Then, through the laughter came the shattering thunder of the World War. And now a blood-drenched, bitter world — no longer laughing — cries for a way out. There is but one way out. It existed before it was engraven upon Tablets of Stone. It will exist when stone has crumbled. The Ten Commandments are not rules to obey as a personal favor to God. They are the fundamental principles without which mankind cannot live together.