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Oct 25, 2017
"To learn that the most practical thing in life is to be idealistic is an enormous gift. " --Godfrey Reggio
A Call for Another Way of Living
After he was asked to leave the order of the Christian Brothers, and with no training in filmmaking, Godfrey Reggio made the remarkable Qatsi trilogy. He had a way of following his own vision. "What I learned is that it's what I did every day that determined what I was going to think. I've never forgotten that. Every now and then, I'll give a convocation address at a university and I try to always caution the students to not let their diplomas become their death certificates. If you give up your imagination, if you give up your ability to create for the wages of a good job, then you might give up that which predicates us as human beings, the ability to create our own lives." This remarkable interview shares more of Reggio's journey and vision.
BE THE CHANGE
If you feel called to undertake some project and haven't been officially licensed with some kind of degree or certificate, consider simply beginning.