“You dress a little better, try to think pure thoughts, get in a ‘religious’ frame of mind, say hello to everyone? Smile. Right? But you sense a pervasive dichotomy during the week. You don’t feel like it’s who you really are. This is what I do with romance movies. The ideal relationships on the screen, two-dimensionally, are always, and only, experienced from a distance. They can’t have it. They get discouraged. They seek comfort in a relationship. I’ve turned the natural human desire to believe down a cul-de-sac. It’s the same with church. If I can make people associate God with this dichotomous feeling, they eventually say ‘What’s the use?’ ” (>>)