Technology Is Not Neutral.

The 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.

The Normal Cut In A Theatrical Film Is Anywhere From 3 To 6 Seconds. That Means Thousands Of Images In A Film Over A Couple Of Hours. In Visitors The Cuts Come Every 70-plus Seconds. The Point Of View Is That The Stiller One Can Be The More Open To Their Senses They Become. The Whole World Is Quick Right Now. If Things Can Be Slowed Down They Stay In Memory Longer.

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 To Hope To Be Able To Have Peace, To Be Able To Have Justice And Environmental Balance, Are Consequences Of Our Behavior, Not Just Our Intentions.

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.