37 Quotes by Godfrey Reggio

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

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.

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.

My job is to assemble this team of collaboration, hope that everyone has a strong ego but no vanity and that we can proceed with a critical path.

Remember that the film is about the digital domain. From the point of view of the scenario, images are evil demons, if I can be so bold.

So the location for this film is the images themselves - what is traditionally called stock and archival images. Then we animated those images.

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.

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.

Technology is not neutral.