Atom Egoyan Quotes

• 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 zoom; every time we have a film camera it is a physical movement.

  Atom Egoyan

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  Tags in Film, Camera, Move

• The programme has ended, something has finished, and he has a sense of something having finished its course, and then all of a sudden he turns away and this other thing has just finished its course, this other person.

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  Tags in Programmes, Sense, Person

• These are very subtle things, of course, and I don’t expect everyone to pick them up consciously, but I think that there is something there that you must be able to feel, there is an energy at work that I must trust my audience will be able to pick up at some level.

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  Topics in Trust

  Tags in Energy

• There is a certain moment in the film when the son is in the nursing home and he goes to the television and turns it off because he sees himself in the image.

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  Tags in Moment, Son

• These sorts of things can happen, identities can be switched, the emotional implications are something that he has not been trained to feel. His whole life has been about separating himself from these sorts of actions.

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  Tags in Separate, Happen, Emotional

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

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  Tags in Film, Convinced, Themselves

• 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 that you have to keep the characters down to a minimum.

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  Tags in Characters, Writing, Working, Mind

• Though I am still very vulnerable to audiences – and it happens all the time – where for some reason the energy doesn’t connect and, since the film is very personal, obviously I am made to feel very vulnerable by that.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Vulnerable, Energy, Film

• 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

  Topics in Expectations

  Tags in Film, Worked

• 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 sustain the illusion that they will edit it all, but I don’t think that’s it.

  Atom Egoyan

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Back, Through

• You can talk about Holocaust denial, but it’s really marginal for the most part. What is compelling about the Armenian genocide, is how it has been forgotten.

  Atom Egoyan

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  Tags in Denial, Genocide, Talk, Compelling

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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