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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 31 quotes by Atom Egoyan Atom Egoyan, OC (born July 19, 1960) is a Canadian stage director and film director. Egoyan made his career breakthrough with Exotica (1994), a film set primarily in and around the fictional Exotica strip club. Egoyan was born to Armenian parents in Egypt. His family moved to Canada when he was two years old. His work often explores themes of alienation and isolation, featuring characters whose interactions are mediated through technology,... Read full biography of Atom Egoyan → 1 2 3 Ctrl → 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... → 0 My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration. 0 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... → 0 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... → 0 I suppose I had these concerns but I really felt that I had to keep my scope very, very concentrated. 0 It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television. 0 The whole film is about people being convinced that they can reduce themselves to their archetypes. 0 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... → 0 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... → 0 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... → 0 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... → 0 I've just been very, very lucky with the film having been introduced in the right way. 0 When I was planning Family Viewing, the Ontario Film Development Corporation came into existence. 0 1 2 3 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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