Godfrey Reggio Quotes

• It's not that we use technology, we live technology.

  Godfrey Reggio

  Technology, Use, Milieu

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think it's naive to pray for world peace if we're not going to change the form in which we live.

  Godfrey Reggio

  Peace, Thinking, World

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• 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 for the right cause. I wanted to create an experience through the films, something where people could have the freedom of their own response to them.

  Godfrey Reggio

  People, Wish, Engagement

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Technology is not neutral.

  Godfrey Reggio

  Tecnología

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• 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 exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life.

  Godfrey Reggio

  Technology, Politics, Etc

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• 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 films without words.

  Godfrey Reggio

  Lack Of Love, Language, Film

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• 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 of our technological happiness.

  Godfrey Reggio

  Happiness, Real, Principles

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• El corte normal de una película de cine oscila entre 3 y 6 segundos. Eso significa miles de imágenes en una película durante un par de horas. En Visitantes, los cortes se producen cada más de 70 segundos. El punto de vista es que cuanto más quieto puede uno estar, más abierto a sus sentidos se vuelve. El mundo entero es rápido en este momento. Si las cosas pueden ralentizarse, permanecen más tiempo en la memoria.

  Godfrey Reggio

  Couple, Memories, Mean

  "Interview: Godfrey Reggio Returns With the Breathtaking 4K Film 'Visitors'". Interview with Zachary Wigon, tribecafilm.com. January 24, 2014.

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• 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 have become who we are.

  Godfrey Reggio

  Thinking, Tragedy, Tools

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• 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 get to is the positive value of negation.

  Godfrey Reggio

  Trying, Facts, Negative

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• What I'm trying to do is to at least raise a flag to the blinding light of technology.

  Godfrey Reggio

  Technology, Light, Trying

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• 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, I'm trying to bring some resolution, and realize that myself. It's a struggle; it's a process that gets us this.

  Godfrey Reggio

  Lucha, Pensamiento, Gente

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• Technology has become as ubiquitous as the air we breathe, so we are no longer conscious of its presence.

  Godfrey Reggio

  Technology, Air, Breathe

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• 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 the effect of [technology], it is that everything exists with-in [its milieu]. It's not that we use technology, we live technology. Technology has become as ubiquitous as the air we breathe, so we are no longer conscious of its presence.

  Godfrey Reggio

  Technology, Air, Trying

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• The only thing I can do is type. I learned that when I was 13.

  Godfrey Reggio

  Type, Can Do, I Can

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• History has been the history of warfare.

  Godfrey Reggio

  Warfare, Has Beens

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• 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 into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students.

  Godfrey Reggio

  Relationship, Teacher, Raises Questions

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• 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 seized by this idea of social justice and I wanted very much to follow my vow of teaching the poor gratuitously.

  Godfrey Reggio

  Brother, Teaching, Ideas

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• I think there's an enormous value to being negative. The world we live in today, negativity is not permitted.

  Godfrey Reggio

  Thinking, Negativity, Live For Today

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• All tools have intrinsic politics and technology is the tool of now.

  Godfrey Reggio

  Technology, Tools, Politics

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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 I wanted to commune with the public, I should best do so through the language of image. It's a conscious embrace of a contradiction.

  Godfrey Reggio

  Order, Live In The Moment, Language

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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 is collaborative.

  Godfrey Reggio

  Real, Illiterate Person, People

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• 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 our intentions.

  Godfrey Reggio

  Justice, Balance, Environmental

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