Atom Egoyan Quotes
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.
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I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
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The word 'grace' means after we must have done everything humanly possible, we must leave the issue with God. That is grace.
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I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'
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There is no job that is America's God-given right anymore.
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This may come as a surprise, given the nature of my job, but I am very guarded and contemplative. I'm not a naturally boisterous person.
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If someone gets married at 15, they're either dumb or pregnant. I was both.
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The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.
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I want my kids to have a good work ethic. I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.
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Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.
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I feel very comfortable shooting music, and I think you can see that.
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I really think that I don't mind people sleeping during my films, because I know that some very good films might prepare you for sleeping or falling asleep or snoozing. It's not to be taken badly at all. This is something I really mean.
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Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.
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Americans must outgrow the unbecoming arrogance that leads us to assert that America somehow owns a monopoly on goodness and truth - a belief that leads some to view the world as but a stage on which to play out the great historical drama: the United States of America versus the Powers of Evil.
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Yes I am definitely an 'Orange is the New Black' fan... Not an obsessive, but a fan none the less.
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'Let us leave tomorrow’s trouble for the One who bore our troubles on the cross.'
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Our problem at the moment is a problem of success.
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My practicality consists in this: in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall … that is my strength, my only strength.
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Everybody wonders why I continue working at this stage. I keep working because there's always new stories. … And as long as people want me to tell them, I'll be there doing them.
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Economic and financial crisis are getting much more usual, and they are not confined to a given country but they immediately spread all over the world, and you have to be prepared for that.
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Someone asked me about how it feels to wear the same costume every day and whether it gets tired or boring, but the good thing about it is that you know what to expect, every day.
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We do not wish to have nuclear weapons on New Zealand soil or in our harbors. We do not ask, we do not expect, the United States to come to New Zealand's assistance with nuclear weapons or to present American nuclear capability as a deterrent to an attacker.
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There seems to be a theme running through the women I play. They take their circumstances and try to make the best of them.
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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.
