Atom Egoyan Quotes
It is not as though the process of production holds any mystery for me, I know exactly what it involves and I know the predominant concern in shooting one of those things is production values - or as they would say, seeing it all up there on screen.
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The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.
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One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.
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A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.
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Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.
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You must always do what you feel is right.
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I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.
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All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
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I like rap. I like anything with soul. I like anything you can feel, anything that makes you think that the artist had to make that song, or they were going to go crazy.
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Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.
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The idea of being at home and picking up kids from school and cooking dinner and then the husband comes home - there's something that seems really nice to me 'cause I never had that growing up. And it seems so enticing. But in my mind, I'm like, 'Well, I'll just play that in a movie and go about my own life, bizarre as it is.'
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It's very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.
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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
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'Vanity' means worthlessness.
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I really like Los Angeles - I had a good life out there. But the reason I choose to live in New York is because when I'm between engagements, as they say, something creative always comes up for me, like 'Julian Po,' or helping teach at NYU, or helping stage a show at Juilliard.
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Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
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I'd like to work with Bjork if I could get in the studio with her. We could probably travel to a different planet, you know what I'm saying?
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So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.
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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
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Commonplace objects are constantly changing… The pies, for example, we now see, are not going to be around forever. We are merely used to the idea that things do not change.
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I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.
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There are too many leaders anointed because they have a public voice - television, radio, or record, or whatever. That even includes myself. In the past, I'd say, 'Don't anoint me when you can anoint yourself.'
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The performances I enjoy are the ones that are hard to read or ambiguous or left-of-centre because it makes you look closer and that's what humans are like - quite mysterious creatures, hard to pinpoint.
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Don't give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you.
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It is not as though the process of production holds any mystery for me, I know exactly what it involves and I know the predominant concern in shooting one of those things is production values - or as they would say, seeing it all up there on screen.
