Atom Egoyan
Atom Egoyan
Atom Egoyan, CCis a Canadian director, writer, producer and former actor. Egoyan made his career breakthrough with Exotica, a film set primarily in and around the fictional Exotica strip club. Egoyan's most critically acclaimed film is the drama The Sweet Hereafter, and his biggest commercial success is the erotic thriller Chloe. Egoyan has been nominated for two Academy Awards: Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay, both for The Sweet Hereafter. He also won several awards at Cannes Film Festival, Toronto...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth19 July 1960
CityCairo, Egypt
CountryCanada
There are no guidelines. You sign this quite confidently, but you don't really know until you show it to the MPAA.
We hear about the experiment that is Canada but we are now entering the most interesting phase of that, where people are interacting with their own culture and understanding the degree of tolerance we have created in this place.
I wasn't happy with the version I showed this morning. The good news is the film will go out as it was originally intended.
He's my hero, so any time I get to wade into his world is pretty satisfying.
I could have made it better this is the proof. If it was good enough to win the award, I thank you.
If I knew how restrictive (the MPAA was), I would have had an entirely different conversation with the actors.
I think that's one of the real joys of working with a small budget - that you have to determine exactly what it is that you need and want to say.
It's not as though I'm working in some sort of vacuum, I do know exactly what my options are and it is a creative choice to go one way or the other.
It's crazy, it's totally outrageous, it's very upsetting, and I can't understand it,
I've just been very, very lucky with the film having been introduced in the right way.
I have always felt that this story is universal. When I began to understand the details of the history, I felt that the most compelling aspect was not what happened, but what continues to happen and how it is denied.