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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I always think the relationship between a teacher and a student should be short and maybe violent. You don't need to spend years together. All you need is an explosion: you are the material to explode; the teacher is the detonator.
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I am proud of being a Southerner. I wasn't about to let Southerners on my show be stupid or aw-shuckses who just sit on the front porch and spit in the yard. I wasn't about to do that, and I made that very clear from the start. I was kind of the gate-keeper on that stuff.
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I'm a huge movie buff, so I'm a fan of a lot of actors and actresses.
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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.
