I've just been very, very lucky with the film having been introduced in the right way. — Atom Egoyan Copy Share Image
When I was planning Family Viewing, the Ontario Film Development Corporation came into existence. — Atom Egoyan Copy Share Image
The whole film is about people being convinced that they can reduce themselves to their archetypes. — Atom Egoyan Copy Share Image
I think ultimately if you have a very high expectation of your audience and you know exactly what it is you're trying… — Atom Egoyan Copy Share Image
The film camera's ability to physically move through space, not zoom through space - every time we have a video camera the… — Atom Egoyan Copy Share Image
I think the situation in Toronto is such that there are funding organizations which make it easy for a film to raise… — Atom Egoyan Copy Share Image
Though I am still very vulnerable to audiences - and it happens all the time - where for some reason the energy… — Atom Egoyan Copy Share Image
Right now my career is totally schizophrenic, because when an American production like Hitchcock Presents asks to see my work I would… — Atom Egoyan Copy Share Image
I just think I love the process of making films. It's not tortuous for me at all. I love being with my… — Atom Egoyan Copy Share Image
There is a certain moment in the film when the son is in the nursing home and he goes to the television… — Atom Egoyan Copy Share Image
When you make a film like this, you must have the highest expectations of your audience. Having worked in situations where we… — Atom Egoyan Copy Share Image
I think if you look at the themes that are presented in the film, some are inherently social, and I think that… — Atom Egoyan Copy Share Image
I mean, if you are directing actors to do one thing and then directing them to do something else entirely because the… — Atom Egoyan Copy Share Image
We're still staring at TV screens, right? They're still monitors. But the way information is delivered is different. So it creates an… — Atom Egoyan Copy Share Image
I think in the '80s, when I started making films, we were all suspicious of these technologies. We were all convinced they… — Atom Egoyan Copy Share Image
That's a very odd notion because it involves seeing money up there on the screen - if something cost $5 million to… — Atom Egoyan Copy Share Image
We're lucky to be making films. My crew and I have been working together for a long time. I think that that's… — Atom Egoyan Copy Share Image
That is where the irony of the film comes off, in terms of the language it employs - where he tries desperately… — Atom Egoyan Copy Share Image
The biggest problem with the independent film sector in Toronto is that they find themselves having to make that budget show on… — Atom Egoyan Copy Share Image
I think the situation in Toronto is such that there are funding organizations which make it easy for a film to raise more money… — Atom Egoyan Copy Share Image
The fathers greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not really able… — Atom Egoyan Copy Share Image
The programme has ended, something has finished, and he has a sense of something having finished its course, and then all of a sudden… — Atom Egoyan Copy Share Image
It was very important that it be done in such a way that it be executed with complete conviction. If I had done it… — Atom Egoyan Copy Share Image
The film camera's ability to physically move through space, not zoom through space - every time we have a video camera the movement is… — Atom Egoyan Copy Share Image
I have always felt that this story is universal. When I began to understand the details of the history, I felt that the most… — Atom Egoyan Copy Share Image
I've just been very, very lucky with the film having been introduced in the right way. — Atom Egoyan Copy Share Image
Every actor has a different temperament. Part of my job is to know what those boundaries are. The actor has to know you'll be… — Atom Egoyan Copy Share Image
People make decisions that may have one intent and yet are somehow perverted into something else. And sometimes it's because of design. Sometimes it's… — Atom Egoyan Copy Share Image
These sorts of things can happen, identities can be switched, the emotional implications are something that he has not been trained to feel. His… — Atom Egoyan Copy Share Image
Working on the themes I was interested in, through the context of a particular family, was a very economical way of dealing with a… — Atom Egoyan Copy Share Image
I just think I love the process of making films. It's not tortuous for me at all. I love being with my crew. I… — Atom Egoyan Copy Share Image
