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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.

~Atom Egoyan

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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

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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.

~Atom Egoyan

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

~Atom Egoyan

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Director

Born: July 19th, 1960

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