Atom Egoyan Quotes

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• I think ultimately if you have a very high expectation of your audience and you know exactly what it is you're trying to express through…
• When I was planning Family Viewing, the Ontario Film Development Corporation came into existence.
• The fathers greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not really able to…
• Though I am still very vulnerable to audiences - and it happens all the time - where for some reason the energy doesn't connect and,…
• When you're working with a smaller budget I suppose one of the things that has to be in your mind when you are writing is…
• Working on the themes I was interested in, through the context of a particular family, was a very economical way of dealing with a lot…
• You are traveling and see these people shooting the entire experience of going through a city, and maybe in the back of their minds they…
• Don’t get depressed about not being where you want to be. This nagging feeling of anxiety is actually called ambition. Ambition is your friend.
• It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.
• My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration.
• I wanted to make sure that the environment of the shooting itself was not that controlled, and the way to go about that course was…
• That's a very odd notion because it involves seeing money up there on the screen - if something cost $5 million to make, they want…
• I think the situation in Toronto is such that there are funding organizations which make it easy for a film to raise more money than…
• As a producer, I think one of the most important decisions you make is not necessarily the material you are working on but the production…
• I mean, if you are directing actors to do one thing and then directing them to do something else entirely because the one thing you…
• I think if you look at the themes that are presented in the film, some are inherently social, and I think that any film which…
• It is not as though the process of production holds any mystery for me, I know exactly what it involves and I know the predominant…
• It was very important that it be done in such a way that it be executed with complete conviction. If I had done it both…
• Right now my career is totally schizophrenic, because when an American production like Hitchcock Presents asks to see my work I would never dream of…
• The film camera's ability to physically move through space, not zoom through space - every time we have a video camera the movement is through…

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