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 I was concerned with.
quote by Atom Egoyan
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
When you make a film like this, you must have the highest expectations of your audience. Having worked in situations where we have the lowest expectations of our audience.
quote by Atom Egoyan
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
I wanted to make sure that the environment of the shooting itself was not that controlled, and the way to go about that course was to work with as small a crew as possible.
quote by Atom Egoyan
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
When you're working with a smaller budget I suppose one of the things that has to be in your mind when you are writing is that you have to keep the characters down to a minimum.
quote by Atom Egoyan
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
That is where the irony of the film comes off, in terms of the language it employs - where he tries desperately to be a 'TV Dad,' to give advice and it's so pat it becomes ridiculous.
quote by Atom Egoyan
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
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.
quote by Atom Egoyan
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
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.
quote by Atom Egoyan
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
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.
quote by Atom Egoyan
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
Once we were in the studio, we realized we were getting certain effects through the shooting of the dramatic scenes on video, shooting off a screen and then getting wave patterns and stuff like that.
quote by Atom Egoyan
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
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.
quote by Atom Egoyan
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!