Godfrey Reggio

Godfrey Reggio

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Born in 1940, American filmmaker Godfrey Reggio built a reputation that extends far beyond any single accomplishment. The range of their thinking — from Technology to Teacher — speaks to an intellectual restlessness that shows in every quote. 18 of Godfrey Reggio's sharpest quotes live here, spanning themes of Technology, Teacher, Religion, Relationship, and Positive. One quote that captures their voice: "I think it's naive to pray for world peace if we're not going to change the form in which we live."

“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

Positive

All Quotes by Godfrey Reggio

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

— Godfrey Reggio

Politics

“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.”

— Godfrey Reggio

Religion

“It's not that we use technology, we live technology.”

— Godfrey Reggio

Technology

“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

Environmental

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

— Godfrey Reggio

Technology

“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

Happiness

“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

Relationship

“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.”

— Godfrey Reggio

Car

“Technology is not neutral.”

— Godfrey Reggio

Technology

“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

Experience

“Technology has become as ubiquitous as the air we breathe, so we are no longer conscious of its presence.”

— Godfrey Reggio

Technology

“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

Positive

“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

Change