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

People, Being, Film

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

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"That's a very odd notion because it involves seeing money up there on the screen - if something cost $5 million to make, they want to see that $5 million up there."

Money, Want

"Working on the themes I was interested in, through the context of a particular family, was a very economical way of dealing with a lot of the issues I was concerned with."

Family,

"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."

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"I've just been very, very lucky with the film having been introduced in the right way."

Film, Right

"I mean, if you are directing actors to do one thing and then directing them to do something else entirely because the one thing you wanted them to do may not work, then you are just shattering their confidence in the project."

Work, Actors, Confidence, May

"Though I am still very vulnerable to audiences - and it happens all the time - where for some reason the energy doesn't connect and, since the film is very personal, obviously I am made to feel very vulnerable by that."

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

People, Being, Film

"The programme has ended, something has finished, and he has a sense of something having finished its course, and then all of a sudden he turns away and this other thing has just finished its course, this other person."

Sense,

"I think if you look at the themes that are presented in the film, some are inherently social, and I think that any film which deals with the family is dealing with the smallest social unit in our society - and in a sense it is a question of scope."

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"When I was planning Family Viewing, the Ontario Film Development Corporation came into existence."

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