Author: Godfrey Reggio

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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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

- Godfrey Reggio

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

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

- Godfrey Reggio

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

- Godfrey Reggio

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