Godfrey Reggio (born March 29, 1939) is an American director of experimental documentary films. Read full biography of 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.
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... →
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... →
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... →
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... →
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 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... →
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.
In effect, I feel like a blind, deaf, and illiterate person working through the sensibilities and multiple, real talents of other people. Everything... →
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... →
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... →
Godfrey Reggio (born March 29, 1939) is an American director of experimental documentary films.