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Atom Egoyan Quotes

Canadian - Director | July 19, 1960 -

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.

You Holocaust Talk Genocide Denial

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.

Father Simple Person More Human Own

My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration.

Creative Parents Me Believe Act

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

People Archetypes Being Film Whole

When I was planning Family Viewing, the Ontario Film Development Corporation came into existence.

Family Planning Development Existence

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.

Me Process Mystery Values Seeing Up

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.

Money Seeing Want See Up Cost

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.

Work American Career Dream Never

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.

Family Society Think You Look Film

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.

Mind Writing Budget You Down Things

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

Keep Felt Suppose Very Really Scope

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.

Family Way Through Context Working

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