In the order I was in, each brother takes five vows, one of which is teaching the poor gratuitously. As a young person I was seized by this idea of social justice and I wanted very much to follow my vow of teaching the poor gratuitously.
Godfrey ReggioSo, 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.
Godfrey ReggioThe 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.
Godfrey ReggioI think it's naive to pray for world peace if we're not going to change the form in which we live.
Godfrey Reggio