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 there at the other end, that you're trying to represent them in the best light, who… — Atom Egoyan Copy Share Image
Sometimes you think you want to know something, but it's actually more exciting and more resonant when you have to try [and figure it out]. — 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
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