Atom Egoyan Quotes

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Denial, Genocide, Talk, Compelling

• 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

• 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

• 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.

  Atom Egoyan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Characters, Writing, Working, Mind

• 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

• 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

• 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.

  Atom Egoyan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Vulnerable, Energy, Film

• 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.

  Atom Egoyan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Separate, Happen, Emotional

• 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.

  Atom Egoyan

  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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Moment, Son

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Film, Convinced, Themselves

• 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.

  Atom Egoyan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Programmes, Sense, Person

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Film, Camera, Move

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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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