Latest Atom Egoyan Quotes from Interviews

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• 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.

  Atom Egoyan

  Real, Technology, Emotional

  Source: film.avclub.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

• 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.

  Atom Egoyan

  People, Listening, Determined

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I do think you fall in love when you feel that something of your story is being listened to for the first time, or you feel someone else is hearing it as no one else has ever done.

  Atom Egoyan

  Falling In Love, Thinking, Done

  Source: www.avclub.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

• The directing process is often a continuation of the writing. This is just a different skill-set.

  Atom Egoyan

  Writing, Different

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I started in theater and I wanted to write plays, but I never really found an original voice as a playwright.

  Atom Egoyan

  Writing, Play, Voice

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

• People make decisions that may have one intent and yet are somehow perverted into something else. And sometimes it's because of design. Sometimes it's because of happenstance. But very often, it's mysterious to them.

  Atom Egoyan

  People, Design, Decision

  "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.

• 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.

  Atom Egoyan

  Grief, People, Choices

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

• Sometimes you think you want to know something, but it's actually more exciting and more resonant when you have to try [and figure it out].

  Atom Egoyan

  Thinking, Trying, Want

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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

  Atom Egoyan

  Jobs, Light, Trying

  "Atom Egoyan Discusses Seeking Truth With Devil’s Knot". Interview with Meredith Alloway, blogs.indiewire.com. May 13, 2014.

• 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.

  Atom Egoyan

  Justice, Upset, Different

  "Atom Egoyan Discusses Seeking Truth With Devil’s Knot". Interview with Meredith Alloway, blogs.indiewire.com. May 13, 2014.

• I’m Armenian, and April 24th was another commemoration of the genocide of Armenia people by Turkey. The perpetrator never admitted the crime. I was raised with that, this question: how do you actually find the truth of such a traumatic event? I'm obsessed with that issue.

  Atom Egoyan

  Turkeys, Issues, People

  "Atom Egoyan Discusses Seeking Truth With Devil’s Knot". Interview with Meredith Alloway, blogs.indiewire.com. May 13, 2014.