It's fascinating how Orson Welles conjured the "biblical" feelz for so many movies, from "Moby Dick" to "Late Great Planet Earth." He wasn't Christian!

I look up Welles' religosity

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PLAYBOY: Did you have a religious upbringing?

WELLES: Quite the contrary. My mother was born a Catholic but then became a student of Oriental religions, in which she later lost interest. She taught me to read the Bible as a wonderful piece of literature. My father was a total agnostic, and Dr. Bernstein - the guardian who loooked after me when my parents died - always made fun of the Bible stories. That shocked me as a child. I have a natural sense of veneration for what man has aspired to beyond himself, in East or West. It comes easily and instinctively to me to feel reverence rather than a gleeful skepticism. I read the mystics, though I'm not a mystic myself.