“In effect, I feel like a blind, deaf, and illiterate person working th...” — Godfrey Reggio Quote

“In effect, I feel like a blind, deaf, and illiterate person working through the sensibilities and multiple, real talents of other people. Everything I do is collaborative.”

“But in fact if you look at film as a metaphor, only through the negative can you have the positive print. What I'm trying to get to is the positive value of negation.”

“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.”

“I was always pretty decent at fast stick work or doing stuff that seems impressive that's not really; I was pretty tasteful and had good ideas musically. But I had a terrible sense of tempo, which is like being a blind painter. The conductor would just rip into me, and it lasted for years.”

“No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.”

“I had someone correct my grammar once on a blind date, and within the first 10 minutes the date was over. You just don't correct somebody's grammar. That's just not okay. I'm from Tennessee, so I probably say everything wrong. I might have said 'ain't,' or something like that.”