Atom Egoyan Quotes

• 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 deals with the family is dealing with the smallest social unit in our society – and in a sense it is a question of scope.

  Atom Egoyan

  Topics in Family, Uncategorized

  Tags in Themes, Sense

• When I was planning Family Viewing, the Ontario Film Development Corporation came into existence.

  Atom Egoyan

  Topics in Family, Uncategorized

  Tags in Planning, Film, Existence

• 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 of the issues I was concerned with.

  Atom Egoyan

  Topics in Family, Uncategorized

  Tags in Working, Through

• 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

  Topics in Dream, Uncategorized

  Tags in Career, dream, American

• 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 wanted them to do may not work, then you are just shattering their confidence in the project.

  Atom Egoyan

  Topics in Confidence, Uncategorized

  Tags in Directing, Actor

• I have always felt that this story is universal. When I began to understand the details of the history, I felt that the most compelling aspect was not what happened, but what continues to happen and how it is denied.

  Atom Egoyan

  Topics in History, Uncategorized

  Tags in Understand, Happened, Compelling

• 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

  Topics in Money, Uncategorized

  Tags in Funding, Easy

• 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 to see that $5 million up there.

  Atom Egoyan

  Topics in Money, Uncategorized

  Tags in Seeing, Million

• 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

  Topics in Expectations, Uncategorized

  Tags in Film, High, Through

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

  Atom Egoyan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Concerns, Felt

• 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 apparatus that you choose to develop the project with, and that determines what funding you go to, it determines many factors.

  Atom Egoyan

  Topics in Decisions

  Tags in Producer, Working

• 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 concern in shooting one of those things is production values – or as they would say, seeing it all up there on screen.

  Atom Egoyan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Predominantly, Values, Process

• 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

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Wanted

• 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 ways, if I was trying to cover myself in case it didn’t work, then it would have been to no purpose.

  Atom Egoyan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Important, Case, Myself

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

  Atom Egoyan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Moment, Sense

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

  Atom Egoyan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Lucky, Film

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Once, Wave, Realized

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

  Atom Egoyan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Parents, Believe, Transcends

• 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

  Topics in Advice

  Tags in Irony, Give

• The father’s greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not really able to deal with his own complexity as a human being.

  Atom Egoyan

  Topics in Father

  Tags in Greatest, Simple

Atom Egoyan (31)

Birth:	19th July, 1960
Nationality:	Canadian, Egyptian
Profession:	Actor, Film Director, Producer, Screenwriter

About

Atom Egoyan was born Atom Yeghoyan in Cairo, Egypt. He is a critically acclaimed Canadian stage director and film director. Egoyan made his career breakthrough with Exotica. His family moved to Canada when he was two years old. His most critically acclaimed film is The Sweet Hereafter, and his biggest commercial success is Chloe. Egoyan has been nominated for two Academy Awards: Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay, both for The Sweet Hereafter. He also won several awards at Cannes Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and Genie Awards. In 2008 Egoyan received the Dan David Prize for "Creative Rendering of the Past".

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