Atom Egoyan Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• 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

  Thinking, Ghouls, Organization

  Interview with Ron Burnett, rburnett.squarespace.com.

• 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.

  Atom Egoyan

  Thinking, Expectations, Trying

  Interview with Ron Burnett, rburnett.squarespace.com.

• 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

  Moving, Space, Cameras

  Interview with Ron Burnett, rburnett.squarespace.com.

• 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

  Home, Son, Nursing

  Interview with Ron Burnett, rburnett.squarespace.com.

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

  Atom Egoyan

  Independent, Toronto, Problem

  CineAction! Interview with Ron Brunett, May, 1989.

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

  Atom Egoyan

  Ontario, Development, Corporations

  Interview with Ron Burnett, rburnett.squarespace.com.

• I just think I love the process of making films. It's not tortuous for me at all. I love being with my crew. I love actors. There's a joy to the process.

  Atom Egoyan

  Love Is, Thinking, Joy

  "Writer/Director Atom Egoyan Talks THE CAPTIVE, His Writing Process, the Non-Linear Narrative, Dark Material, REMEMBER, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. December 10, 2014.

• 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.

  Atom Egoyan

  Energy, Film, Vulnerable

  Interview with Ron Burnett, rburnett.squarespace.com.

• We're lucky to be making films. My crew and I have been working together for a long time. I think that that's what emanates.

  Atom Egoyan

  Thinking, Long, Together

  "Writer/Director Atom Egoyan Talks THE CAPTIVE, His Writing Process, the Non-Linear Narrative, Dark Material, REMEMBER, and More". collider.com. December 10, 2014.

• Try to produce your own films, avoid directing for hire.

  Atom Egoyan

  Trying, Film, Produce

• 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

  Thinking, Looks, Our Society

  Interview with Ron Burnett, rburnett.squarespace.com.

• 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.

  Atom Egoyan

  Technology, Thinking, Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

• 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

  Dream, Independent, Careers

  Interview with Ron Burnett, rburnett.squarespace.com.

• We're still staring at TV screens, right? They're still monitors. But the way information is delivered is different. So it creates an interesting way of looking back at early films, because they're actually relevant in terms of the devices people are using. But the consideration, the debate, around those technologies was very different from what's being presented now.

  Atom Egoyan

  Technology, People, Interesting

  Source: film.avclub.com

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