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Atom Egoyan

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

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Donna Grant

"Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven."

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"Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night."

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Donna Grant

"It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego."

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Donna Grant

"Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one."

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Donna Grant

"It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning."

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Donna Grant

"I will act as if what I do makes a difference."

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Donna Grant

"There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord."

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Donna Grant

"Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on."

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Donna Grant

"Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk."

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Donna Grant

"Well, we know that eighteen years after that solemn declaration it was disregarded, and the Irish Parliament, which lasted for five hundred years, was destroyed by the Act of Union. Gentlemen, the Act of Union was carried by force and fraud, by treachery and falsehood."

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Atom Egoyan
"I think the situation in Toronto is such that there are funding organizations which make it easy for a film to raise more money than it needs and very often that works against a film."

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

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"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."

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

People

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"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."

Home

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"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."

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

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"When you're working with a smaller budget I suppose one of the things that has to be in your mind when you are writing is that you have to keep the characters down to a minimum."

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"Right now my career is totally schizophrenic, because when an American production like Hitchcock Presents asks to see my work I would never dream of showing them my independent films."

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