Actors Quote by Atom Egoyan

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

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

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

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

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

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

I've just been very, very lucky with the film having been introduced in the right way.

— Atom Egoyan

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

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

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

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

The whole film is about people being convinced that they can reduce themselves to their archetypes.

— Atom Egoyan