I've just been very, very lucky with the film having been introduced in the right way.
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When I was planning Family Viewing, the Ontario Film Development Corporation came into existence.
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The whole film is about people being convinced that they can reduce themselves to their archetypes.
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I suppose I had these concerns but I really felt that I had to keep my scope very, very concentrated.
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It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.
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My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration.
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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.
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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.
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That's a very odd notion because it involves seeing money up there on the screen - if something cost $5 million to make, they want to see that $5 million up there.
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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 complexity as a human being.
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