Atom Egoyan Quotes

• 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.

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  Tags in Predominantly, Values, Process

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

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  Tags in Moment, Sense

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

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  Tags in Lucky, Film

• 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.

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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.

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  Topics in Expectations, Uncategorized

  Tags in Film, High, Through

• 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.

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  Topics in Money, Uncategorized

  Tags in Funding, Easy

• 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.

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  Topics in Family, Uncategorized

  Tags in Themes, Sense

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

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  Tags in Concerns, Felt

• 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.

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  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.

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  Topics in History, Uncategorized

  Tags in Understand, Happened, Compelling

• 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.

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  Topics in Decisions

  Tags in Producer, Working

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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