It is about this very ...

It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.
It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.
 Atom Egoyan

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The film camera's ability to physically move through space, not zoom through space - every time we have a video camera the movement is through zoom; every time we have a film camera it is a physical movement.
 Atom Egoyan
I'm obsessed with this idea of storytellers and people who have a narrative, and sometimes sustain a relationship because they're telling a narrative and someone is listening to that. Often the nature of the relationship is determined by how well they tell the story, or someone else's ability to suspend disbelief, or infuse into their narrative something which they may not even be aware of.
 Atom Egoyan
I think entire social groups are formed through technologies that could never exist in the real world, and relationships that are a function of these technologies' ability to accelerate feeling and emotional contact.
 Atom Egoyan
The fathers 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
My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration.
 Atom Egoyan