Bill Viola Professions : Video Artist Born : January 25, 1951 Browse All Authors Top 41 quotes by Bill Viola In the 1970s, a lot of critics didn't understand video. I got a lot of bad reviews. But film-makers didn't understand what we were doing, either. There were actual fistfights between film-makers and video-makers. I was witness to one. Bill Viola doing bad understand critics Similar Authors Chris Cunningham video-artist Marco Brambilla video-artist All Authors