Atom Egoyan

Director

1960-07-19

Atom Egoyan is a Canadian filmmaker, writer, and producer known for independent and international cinema.

Quotes by Atom Egoyan

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.
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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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My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration.
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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.
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When I was planning Family Viewing, the Ontario Film Development Corporation came into existence.
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