Atom Egoyan Quotes

Atom Egoyan — Canadian Director born on July 19, 1960,

Atom Egoyan, OC is a Canadian stage director and film director. Egoyan made his career breakthrough with Exotica , a film set primarily in and around the fictional Exotica strip club... (wikipedia)

My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration.

The whole film is about people being convinced that they can reduce themselves to their archetypes.

You can talk about Holocaust denial, but it's really marginal for the most part. What is compelling about the Armenian genocide, is how it has been forgotten.

There is a certain moment in the film when the son is in the nursing home and he goes to the television and turns it off because he sees himself in the image.

The father's greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not really able to deal with his own complexity as a human being.

Atom Egoyan Quotes

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