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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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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To spend time is to pass it in a specified manner. To waste time is to expend it thoughtlessly or carelessly. We all have time to spend or waste, and it is our decision what to do with it. But once passed, it is gone forever.
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I really have a love and passion for football. I enjoy basketball, but it's not something I love. You have to let things go that are not for you.
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When I perform, it's definitely about duration. I don't play any kind of time signature known to man.
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I never liked being ordered around - which, of course, was an overreaction. I eventually found out that I didn't mind being ordered around at all when it was by someone who knew what he was doing.
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The new co-operation government will do the best it can to address the country's problems, and I believe that with the co-operation of all - and the new government stresses this - and the unity of all, we will achieve that.
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My only hope to receive love is to let you see who I am, then I may believe you.
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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.
