Atom Egoyan famous quotes

04-17-2025

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

#Holocaust #Denial #Forgotten
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

#Vision #Cost #Want
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

#Thinking #Ghouls #Organization
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

#Thinking #Decision #Important
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

#Mean #Actors #May
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

#Thinking #Looks #Our Society
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

#Shooting #Mystery #Process
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

#Important #Trying #Purpose
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

#Dream #Independent #Careers
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

#Moving #Space #Cameras
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

#Environmental #Shooting #Way
My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration.
-- Atom Egoyan

#Believe #Giving #Creative
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

#Thinking #Expectations #Trying
When I was planning Family Viewing, the Ontario Film Development Corporation came into existence.
-- Atom Egoyan

#Corporations #Ontario #Development
The fathers 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

#Father #Believe #Simple
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

#Energy #Film #Vulnerable
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

#Writing #Character #Mind
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

#Issues #Way #Theme
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

#Thinking #Cities #People
Donâ€™t get depressed about not being where you want to be. This nagging feeling of anxiety is actually called ambition. Ambition is your friend.
-- Atom Egoyan

#Ambition #Anxiety #Feelings
It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.
-- Atom Egoyan

#Television #Moments #Abstract
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.
-- Atom Egoyan

#Home #Son #Nursing

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