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
I think its naive to pray for world peace if were not going to change the form in which we live. – Godfrey Reggio
But in fact if you look at film as a metaphor, only through the negative can you have the positive print. What Im trying to get to is the positive value of negation. – Godfrey Reggio
In later times wise men were never wanting who endeavoured to restore among their contemporaries primitive habits and ways of living, to bring mankind back to the observance of those simple and rational rules of life to which the ancients owed their health and strength. – Sebastian Kneipp, 1889, translated from German, introduction to Thus Shalt Thou