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.

Technology is not neutral.

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

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.

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.

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.

History has been the history of warfare.