All Godfrey Reggio Quotes
- It's not that we use technology, we live technology. Inspirational
- Technology has become as ubiquitous as the air we breathe, so we are no longer conscious of its presence. Air
- Mystery is gone to the certainty of technological principles. So the real terror, the real aggression against life comes in the form of the pursuit… Aggression
- It is very easy to make clear what you want a film to say, but I did not wish to engage in overt propaganda, even… Cause
- The normal cut in a theatrical film is anywhere from 3 to 6 seconds. That means thousands of images in a film over a couple… Anywhere
- What I’m trying to show is that the main event today is not seen by those of us that are living it… So it’s not… Air
- The language of the moment or, as it were, the language of the order in which we live, is the image. I felt that if… Best
- I think there's an enormous value to being negative. The world we live in today, negativity is not permitted. Enormous
- So to hope to be able to have peace, to be able to have justice and environmental balance, are consequences of our behavior, not just… Able
- So, not for lack of love of language, but because I feel our language is in an enormous state of humiliation, I decided to make… Decided
- In effect, I feel like a blind, deaf, and illiterate person working through the sensibilities and multiple, real talents of other people. Everything I do… Blind
- What I'm trying to do is to at least raise a flag to the blinding light of technology. Blinding
- Technology is not neutral. Funny
- It's not just the effect of technology on the environment, on religion, on the economic structure, on society, on politics, etc. It's that everything now… Comprehensive
- All tools have intrinsic politics and technology is the tool of now. All
- But in fact if you look at film as a metaphor, only through the negative can you have the positive print. What I'm trying to… Fact
- I think it's the tragedy of our time that we're not aware of the affect of the manner in which we've adopted tools. Those tools… Adopted
- History has been the history of warfare. Been
- The only thing I can do is type. I learned that when I was 13. Funny
- In terms of the feeling of the piece, I cant think about what people are gonna think about it, what are the critics gonna say,… Bring
- I think it's naive to pray for world peace if we're not going to change the form in which we live. Change
- Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter… All
- In the order I was in, each brother takes five vows, one of which is teaching the poor gratuitously. As a young person I was… Brother
- Now having said that, I realize that releasing a film in the real world is like trying to get General Motors to release a handmade… Car
- These films however, have ambiguity built into them, because it's too easy in film to make a strident work of propaganda or advertising, which are… Advertising