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Godfrey Reggio (born March 29, 1940) is an American director of experimental documentary films.

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I think there's an enormous value to being negative. The world we live in today, negativity is not permitted.

Live For Today, Negative, Negativity, Think, Thinking, Value

What I’m trying to show is that the main event today is not seen by those of us that are living it… So it’s not the effect of [technology], it is that everything exists with-in [its milieu]. 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.

Technology, Air, Trying, Ubiquitous, Effect

The only thing I can do is type. I learned that when I was 13.

Can Do, I Can, Thing, Type

Technology is not neutral.

Neutral, Technology

The normal cut in a theatrical film is anywhere from 3 to 6 seconds. That means thousands of images in a film over a couple of hours. In Visitors the cuts come every 70-plus seconds. The point of view is that the stiller one can be the more open to their senses they become. The whole world is quick right now. If things can be slowed down they stay in memory longer.

Couple, Memories, Mean, World, Stiller, Thousands

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.

Order, Live In The Moment, Language, Felt, Contradiction

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

Technology, Light, Trying, Blinding, Raise

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.

Etc, Host, Politics, Technology

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

Technology, Air, Breathe, Conscious, Longer

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.

Affect, Think, Thinking, Tools, Tragedy

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.

Gonna, People, Struggle, Thinking

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.

Justice, Balance, Environmental, Behavior, Consequences

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.

Happiness, Real, Principles, Mystery, Life

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

Technology, Tools, Politics, Tool

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.

Lack Of Love, Language, Film, Decided, Love, Films