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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

Topics: Concerned Context Dealing Economical Family Interested Issues Lot Particular Themes Through Very Way Working

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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

Topics: Apparatus Choose Decisions Determines Develop Factors Funding Go Important Make Many Material Most Necessarily Producer Production Project The Most Important Think Working You I Think

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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

Topics: About Controlled Course Crew Environment Go Itself Make Possible Shooting Small Sure Wanted Way Work

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Once we were in the studio, we realized we were getting certain effects through the shooting of the dramatic scenes on video, shooting off a screen and then getting wave patterns and stuff like that.

~Atom Egoyan

Topics: Certain Dramatic Effects Getting Like Off Once Patterns Realized Scenes Screen Shooting Studio Stuff Then Through Video Wave Were

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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.

~Atom Egoyan

Topics: Against Easy Film Funding Make Money More Needs Often Organizations Raise Situation Than Think Toronto Very Which Works I Think

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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

Topics: Because Certain Film Goes He Himself Home Image Moment Nursing Nursing Home Off Sees Son Television Turns

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It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.

~Atom Egoyan

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The programme has ended, something has finished, and he has a sense of something having finished its course, and then all of a sudden he turns away and this other thing has just finished its course, this other person.

~Atom Egoyan

Topics: Away Course Ended Finished Having He Just Other Person Programme Sense Something Sudden Then Thing Turns

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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.

~Atom Egoyan

Topics: About Actions Been Emotional Feel Happen He Himself His Identities Implications Life Separating Something Sort Switched Things Trained Whole

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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.

~Atom Egoyan

Topics: Ability Camera Every Every Time Film Move Movement Physical Physically Space Through Time Video Video Camera

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Director

Born: July 19th, 1960

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