Atom Egoyan

My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration. ↗

— Atom Egoyan

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I suppose I had these concerns but I really felt that I had to keep my scope very, very concentrated. ↗

— Atom Egoyan

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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 it needs and very often that works against a film. ↗

— Atom Egoyan

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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 the medium of film, there will always be an audience for you. ↗

— Atom Egoyan

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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 to work with as small a crew as possible. ↗

— Atom Egoyan

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

— Atom Egoyan

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It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television. ↗

— Atom Egoyan

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Once we were in the studio, we realized we were getting certain effects through the shooting of the dramatic scenes on video, shooting off a screen and then getting wave patterns and stuff like that. ↗

— Atom Egoyan

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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 showing them my independent films. ↗

— Atom Egoyan

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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

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