When you make a film like this, you must have the highest expectations of your audience. Having worked in situations where we have the lowest expectations of our audience. — 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 to be a 'TV Dad,' to give advice and it's so pat it becomes ridiculous. — 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
