"The word "devotion," as I am using it, need not refer to the embodiment of a specific religious form. Rather, it is the opening or the interruption that allows us to experience what is hidden, and to accept with our hearts our given situation. When film does this, when it subverts our absorption in the temporal and reveals the depths of our own reality, it opens us to a fuller sense of ourselves and our world. It is alive as a devotional form."
— Nathaniel Dorsky, Devotional Cinema
"That the ineffable quality of vision can be expressed by projected light within darkness gives film great power. When a film is fully manifest it may serve as a mirror that realigns our psyches and opens us to appreciation and humility. The more film expresses itself in a manner intrinsic to its own true nature, the more it can reveal for us. Similarly, the more we are open to ourselves and are willing to touch the depths of our own being, the more we are participating in devotion."
— Nathaniel Dorsky, Devotional Cinema