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Godfrey Reggio
Godfrey Reggio
American Director
Born: Mar 29, 1940
Live People Politics Technology Think World
Related authors: David Lynch George Lucas Martin Scorsese Spike Lee Steven Spielberg Tim Burton Woody Allen
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
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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
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It's not that we use technology, we live technology. Godfrey Reggio
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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
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The only thing I can do is type. I learned that when I was 13. Godfrey Reggio
Type Only Learned The Only Thing Thing
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
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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
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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
Time Become Think Tools Our Those Our Time Adopted Affect Tragedy Which Manner Who Aware
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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History has been the history of warfare. Godfrey Reggio
History Has-Been Been The History Of Warfare
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
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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
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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
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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
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