Godfrey Reggio famous quotes

03-26-2025

It's not that we use technology, we live technology.
-- Godfrey Reggio

#Technology #Use
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
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 #People #Talent
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 #Etc #Politics
All tools have intrinsic politics and technology is the tool of now.
-- Godfrey Reggio

#Technology #Tools #Politics
What I'm trying to do is to at least raise a flag to the blinding light of technology.
-- Godfrey Reggio

#Technology #Light #Trying
Technology is not neutral.
-- Godfrey Reggio

#Technology
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 #Negative #Looks
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
History has been the history of warfare.
-- Godfrey Reggio

#Warfare
The only thing I can do is type. I learned that when I was 13.
-- Godfrey Reggio

#Type
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
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
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 #Years
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
Technology has become as ubiquitous as the air we breathe, so we are no longer conscious of its presence.
-- Godfrey Reggio

#Technology #Air #Breathe
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

#Real #Gone #Principles
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 #Causes
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 of hours. In Visitors the cuts come every 70-plus seconds. The point of view is that the stiller one can be the more open to their senses they become. The whole world is quick right now. If things can be slowed down they stay in memory longer.
-- Godfrey Reggio

#Memories #Couple #Mean
What Iâ€™m trying to show is that the main event today is not seen by those of us that are living itâ€¦ So itâ€™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
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
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
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

#Struggle #Thinking #People

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