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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."

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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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"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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"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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"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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"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."
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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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"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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"What I'm trying to do is to at least raise a flag to the blinding light of technology."
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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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"All tools have intrinsic politics and technology is the tool of now."
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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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