Godfrey Reggio Quotes & Sayings

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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