Until recently, we regarded love as supernatural. We were willing to study the brain chemistry of fear and depression and anger but not love.
I have never read horror, nor do I consider The Exorcist to be such, but rather as a suspenseful supernatural detective story, or paranormal police procedural.
When I play supernatural characters in ‘Ghost Rider’ or ‘City Of Angels,’ the possibilities are limitless. The possibilities are endless, you can do so much with that.
I don’t have any premonitions. I don’t have any supernatural powers. I just have a typical woman’s intuition, and I go with that.
I would bend over backward to be back on Grey’s. Any day, I’ll choose lying in bed with Katherine Heigl looking over me over getting thrown against walls by supernatural persons at 5 in the morning.
I prefer to write about what we refer to as ‘the supernatural’ versus everyday life. Humans, by themselves, bore me.
When you read the New Testament, you see the Holy Spirit was supposed to change everything so that this gathering of people who call themselves Christians had this supernatural element about them.
Christianity is either supernatural or nothing at all.
I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.
Do you know what the world will be saved by? I’ll tell you. It’ll be saved by the human spirit. And by the human spirit, I don’t mean anything divine, I don’t mean anything supernatural – certainly not coming from this skeptic.
It’s not a monster movie. It’s a supernatural thriller.
What if 16th century people were right, and the supernatural and natural coexisted? How would that play out?
What is it about a zombie that appeals to me? I don’t know. Maybe that it’s just the most possible – I don’t know – of all the supernatural entities.
I concluded that all religions had the same foundation – a belief in the supernatural – a power above nature that man could influence by worship – by sacrifice and prayer.
This house I grew up in was built in the 1800s, and the back yard was like a cemetery. Naturally, I grew up in an environment where ghosts and supernatural things were very unnerving to me, because my brothers and I dealt with it on a daily basis.
Supernatural films allow you to bend the rules of time and space – that’s really fun, especially for screenwriters who often get shot down for logic reasons.
I’ve never had a supernatural experience. I’ve been tempted to maybe have a tarot-card reading, but I don’t know if I’d necessarily want to know.
The supernatural world, the sci-fi world – they give you scenarios that can truly be life or death.
The evolutionary explanation for origins, although impossible either to prove or to test scientifically, is nevertheless defended by its proponents on the basis that it is the only explanation which is naturalistic, not involving the ‘supernatural’ element of a divine Creator.
Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.
People keep asking if I believe in ghosts. If you’re talking about poltergeists and weird, supernatural phenomena, not really.
Mysticism and the supernatural are embedded in the show – it’s called ‘Da Vinci’s Demons’ for a reason, and it’s not just metaphorical.
Supernatural does not mean methodological stupidity.
The hypothesis of matter’s being at first evenly spread through the heavens is, in my opinion, inconsistent with the hypothesis of innate gravity without a supernatural power to reconcile them, and therefore, it infers a deity.
The magical, supernatural force that is with us every second is time. We can’t even comprehend it. It’s such an illusion, it’s such a strange thing.
Before we understood that houses shift just over time because the ground is moving, the creaks in a house were assumed to be apparitions, or ghosts. Before we understood that we live on a planet, and there are others, the only answers to where we came from had to be something supernatural.
I like very human stories that venture into sci-fi or the supernatural or areas that I think occupy a lot of space in our collective memory for the films that we loved as children.
There are a lot of things you do in a supernatural universe that can toe the line and cross the line.
Our literary culture is marinated in deep traditions of the fantastic and the supernatural, and we export those rich qualities in films and books on a spectacular industrial scale.
‘Legacies’ is its own show, and it takes on a younger twist to the supernatural world.
Science operates in the natural, not the supernatural. In fact, I go so far as to state that there is no such thing as the supernatural or the paranormal.
Many actors are not willing to wait and take the risk. They get restless sitting at home and, eventually, take up anything that comes their way. It’s not that I wasn’t offered supernatural shows and love stories again, but I chose to wait for the right opportunity. I deserve variety, or I will feel stagnant.
I’ve been going to ‘Supernatural’ conventions, so they tend to be big ‘Lost’ fans and big ‘Supernatural’ fans, but it’s usually for both of those. Walking on the street, people are really, really into ‘Lost.’ But on the conventions circuit, it’s Lucifer.
During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.
There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don’t accept it and you’re having a conversation with someone who does, it’s just one of those polite things where you don’t question their belief in ghosts. You just go, ‘Oh, yeah, okay.’ It’s amazing to be able to have conversations like that.
It is impossible for us to understand the Church if we regard her as subject to the limitations of human culture. For she is essentially a supernatural organism which transcends human cultures and transforms them to her own ends.
When ‘Supernatural’ came out, there were a lot of procedurals and you were either a doctor or a cop or lawyer, otherwise the show didn’t stay on TV. And then we came around, and I don’t want to say we were trailblazers, but we found our niche.
And, of course, supernatural elements just make a story more interesting.
Supernatural movies generally have a much more brooding pace. If you look at films like ‘The Sixth Sense’ or ‘The Others,’ it’s more building up the characters and building up the situation as opposed to just opening with a big action set piece.
The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence.
My interest in the comic goes back a long time, because I grew up reading comics, mostly Marvel Comics, and I always loved ‘Doctor Strange’ uniquely. It was the presence of the fantastical, the presence of the supernatural that was in it. The idea of magic.
As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note.
Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatural.
As an artist, I am very proud of ‘Ek Thi Daayan.’ It was a supernatural flick and a huge risk, since not many films are made like that.
I’m drawn to doing interesting stuff at work. And some of the time with the supernatural, you get to do really crazy, fun things. But I’m not a big genre-fantasy gal, particularly.
The concept of ‘Heavy Rain’ is to offer real-life situations with real characters. There are no supernatural elements in the story.
In elementary school, I loved the ‘Bailey School Kids’ series. It was about a group of classmates who would speculate whether adults in their lives were supernatural beings. I read literally every single book in the series.
Twilight’ has a supernatural reference to it with werewolves and vampires. ‘Harry Potter’ has magic. ‘The Hunger Games’ is about real people put into extreme situations and circumstances.
One man’s ‘magic’ is another man’s engineering. ‘Supernatural’ is a null word.
Theories of history used to be supernatural: the divine ruled time; the hand of God, a special providence, lay behind the fall of each sparrow. If the present differed from the past, it was usually worse: supernatural theories of history tend to involve decline, a fall from grace, the loss of God’s favor, corruption.
The reason Buddhism can be so naturalised is because, stripped of its supernatural elements, its core teachings can be giving a sound, secular philosophical interpretation. In other words, it becomes a religion acceptable to the contemporary, naturalistic mind only when it ceases to be a religion.
Mysteries once thought to be supernatural or paranormal happenings – such as astronomical or meteorological events – are incorporated into science once their causes are understood.
As a scientist, of course, we have to believe there is no supernatural. There are only natural entities in the universe. And those are the things that we study as natural scientists.
People who believe in science have a hard time believing in ghosts and the supernatural.
The belief in something bigger and supernatural is not the same thing as linear religion.
