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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.

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

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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.

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

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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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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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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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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.

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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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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: March 29th, 1940

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