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Atom Egoyan Biography

Atom Egoyan, CC (born July 19, 1960) is a Canadian stage and film director, writer, and producer. Egoyan made his career breakthrough with Exotica (1994), a film set primarily in and around the fictional Exotica strip club. Egoyan's most critically acclaimed film is the drama The Sweet Hereafter (1997), for which he received two Academy Award nominations, and his biggest commercial success is the erotic thriller Chloe (2009).

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Every actor has a different temperament. Part of my job is to know what those boundaries are. The actor has to know you'll be there at the other end, that you're trying to represent them in the best light, who they are as they're harnessing these roles. The methods vary from actor to actor.

Boundaries, Different, Jobs, Light, Trying

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.

Cities, People, See, Sustain, Thinking, Traveling

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.

Connect, Energy, Film, Though, Vulnerable

I find it deeply upsetting when I see justice not being served. How do we as human beings deal with the unknown? The West Memphis Three trial is a joke on so many different levels.

Justice, Upset, Different, Human, Deal, Joke

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.

Thinking, Decisions You Make, Important, Determines, Producer, Funding

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.

Cameras, Move, Movement, Moving, Space, Zoom

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.

Home, Image, Moment, Nursing, Son

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

Corporation, Corporations, Development, Ontario

The biggest problem with the independent film sector in Toronto is that they find themselves having to make that budget show on screen.

Film, Independent, Make, Problem, Show, Toronto

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.

Armenia, Denial, Forgotten, Holocaust, Marginal, Talk

I love when people are resilient and when they form ways of dealing with grief or dealing with some traumatic episode, and sometimes those are the wrong choices.

Choices, Grief, People, Resilient, Wrong

I think in the '80s, when I started making films, we were all suspicious of these technologies. We were all convinced they would filter out any emotion and sense of intimacy, and the films I made during that period reflected that. In fact, what has happened is the opposite. I think we're saturated with a degree of intimacy we would never have expected, and we're trying to sort through this idea of complete access to each other's lives on an ongoing basis. Our emotions aren't filtered out at all. They're actually accelerated.

Fact, Filtered, Saturated, Technology, Thinking, Trying

Don’t get depressed about not being where you want to be. This nagging feeling of anxiety is actually called ambition. Ambition is your friend.

Ambition, Anxiety, Feeling, Feelings, Nagging

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

Believe, Giving, Creative, Give, Act, Parents

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

Abstract, Feels, Moment, Moments, Television

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.

Conviction, Cover, Executed, Important, Purpose, Trying

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.

Careers, Dream, Films, Independent, Like, Right

I'm obsessed with this idea of storytellers and people who have a narrative, and sometimes sustain a relationship because they're telling a narrative and someone is listening to that. Often the nature of the relationship is determined by how well they tell the story, or someone else's ability to suspend disbelief, or infuse into their narrative something which they may not even be aware of.

People, Listening, Determined, Relationship, Infuse

I think entire social groups are formed through technologies that could never exist in the real world, and relationships that are a function of these technologies' ability to accelerate feeling and emotional contact.

Real, Technology, Emotional, Think, Groups, Function

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.

Thinking, Looks, Our Society, Society, Presented, Sense

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