Quotes by Godfrey Reggio - Page 1

Technology is not neutral.
Godfrey Reggio / Film Director
Technology
Neutral
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History has been the history of warfare.
Godfrey Reggio / Film Director
Has Beens
Warfare
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It's not that we use technology, we live technology.
Godfrey Reggio / Film Director
Technology
Milieu
Use
Live
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The only thing I can do is type. I learned that when I was 13.
Godfrey Reggio / Film Director
Can Do
I Can
Type
The Only Thing
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All tools have intrinsic politics and technology is the tool of now.
Godfrey Reggio / Film Director
Politics
Technology
Tools
Intrinsic
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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 / Film Director
Technology
Light
Trying
Blinding
Flag
Raise
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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 / Film Director
Peace
Form
Naive
Praying
Thinking
World
Pray
Change World Live
Change Peace World
Pray For
World Peace
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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 / Film Director
Technology
Air
Breathe
Conscious
Longer
Presence
Ubiquitous
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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 / Film Director
Enormous
Live For Today
Negativity
Thinking
Permitted
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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.
Godfrey Reggio / Film Director
General Motors
Handmade
Real World
Release
Motors
The Real World
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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 / Film Director
Enormous
Film
Humiliation
Lack Of Love
Language
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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 / Film Director
Environmental
Balance
Justice
Hope Peace Justice
Intentions
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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 / Film Director
Adopted
Our Time
Thinking
Tools
Tragedy
Affect
Manner
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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 / Film Director
Facts
Metaphor
Negation
Negative
Print
Trying
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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 / Film Director
Blind
Deaf
Illiterate
Illiterate Person
Multiple
People
Real
People Feel Real
People Feel Person
Talents
Effect
Sensibilities
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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 / Film Director
Happiness
Certainty
Principles
Pursuit
Real
Terror
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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 / Film Director
Relationship
Teacher
Educator
Good Teacher
Raises Questions
Years
Good Teacher Good Teacher
Context
Set
Enter
Having
Raise
So Many Years
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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 really the same thing anyway, meaning the message is unmistakable.
Godfrey Reggio / Film Director
Advertising
Ambiguity
Propaganda
Anyway
Unmistakable
Meaning
Same Thing
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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 / Film Director
Brother
Ideas
Social Justice
Teaching
Vow
Seized
Young Person
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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 / Film Director
Cant
Critics
People
Resolution
Struggle
Thinking
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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 / Film Director
Conscious
Contradiction
Embrace
Language
Live In The Moment
Order
Commune
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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 / Film Director
Religion
Politics
Society
Technology
Comprehensive
Economic
Environment
Etc
Host
Structure
Exists
Point
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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 / Film Director
Engagement
People
Propaganda
Response
Wish
Engage
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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 / Film Director
Technology
Air
Trying
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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 / Film Director
Couple
Mean
Memories
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