"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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Source : Interview with Ron Burnett, rburnett.squarespace.com.

Atom Egoyan

#Thinking Quotes #Expectations Quotes #Trying Quotes

“And there's that one particular harbor Sheltered from the wind Where the children play on the shore each day And all are safe within...”
“When you approach a problem, strip yourself of preconceived opinions and prejudice, assemble and learn the facts of the situation, make the decision which seems to you to be the most honest, and then stick to it.”
“If you make a gun, you are either going to sell it or you are going to use it. And if you're going to sell it, someone else is going to use it.”
“The English Patient' is about the coming together of a French-Canadian nurse, an English patient, a Sikh in a turban and me, Caravaggio, and each of us is seeking a resolution to our own problems.”
“Sharks are being driven to extinction because people want to eat their fins and their flesh.”

Source : "Barbara Block: Use apps to save the great white shark". Interview with Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2012.
“Hey, I'm just a singer in a fabulous dress, with great hair and a beard!”

Source : "Meet the Bearded Drag Queen Who’s Taking Europe by Storm" by Mariah Blake, www.motherjones.com. May 9, 2014.
“I'm sort of getting into the idea of nourishing your inner aspect and doing that by investing in your family and making a meal and creating time together.”
“There is a crucial distinction to be made between innovation and originality. The second, unlike the first, can never break with what preceded it: to be original, an artist must also belong to the tradition from which he departs. To put it another way, he must violate the expectations of his audience, but he must also, in countless ways, uphold and endorse them.”

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