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" History has been the history of warfare. "
Godfrey Reggio
Warfare
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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. "
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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. "
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" All tools have intrinsic politics and technology is the tool of now. "
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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. "
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" Technology is not neutral. "
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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. "
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" It's not that we use technology, we live technology. "
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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. "
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" I think there's an enormous value to being negative. The world we live in today, negativity is not permitted. "
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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. "
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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. "
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" The only thing I can do is type. I learned that when I was 13. "
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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. "
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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. "
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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. "
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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. "
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" Technology has become as ubiquitous as the air we breathe, so we are no longer conscious of its presence. "
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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. "
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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. "
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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
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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. "
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