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These are very subtle things, of course, and I don't expect everyone to pick them up consciously, but I think that there is something there that you must be able to feel, there is an energy at work that I must trust my audience will be able to pick up at some level.

~Atom Egoyan

Topics: Able Audience Course Energy Everyone Expect Feel Level Must Pick Some Something Subtle Them Things Think Trust Up Very Will Work You I Think

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

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That is where the irony of the film comes off, in terms of the language it employs - where he tries desperately to be a 'TV Dad,' to give advice and it's so pat it becomes ridiculous.

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You are traveling and see these people shooting the entire experience of going through a city, and maybe in the back of their minds they sustain the illusion that they will edit it all, but I don't think that's it.

~Atom Egoyan

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When you make a film like this, you must have the highest expectations of your audience. Having worked in situations where we have the lowest expectations of our audience.

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I've just been very, very lucky with the film having been introduced in the right way.

~Atom Egoyan

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Though I am still very vulnerable to audiences - and it happens all the time - where for some reason the energy doesn't connect and, since the film is very personal, obviously I am made to feel very vulnerable by that.

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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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I have always felt that this story is universal. When I began to understand the details of the history, I felt that the most compelling aspect was not what happened, but what continues to happen and how it is denied.

~Atom Egoyan

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It was very important that it be done in such a way that it be executed with complete conviction. If I had done it both ways, if I was trying to cover myself in case it didn't work, then it would have been to no purpose.

~Atom Egoyan

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Director

Born: July 19th, 1960

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