Word: egoyan
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Although maybe a bit tired, Egoyan is relaxed and approachable, even circulating a picture of his wife and young son, who appears in utero with his mother, Arsinee Khanjian, in "Exotica." Egoyan also seems to have figured out what people are interested in learning from film-makers, since he offers the same information at the Four Seasons luncheon and the Carpenter Center screening, with almost identical wording...
...Egoyan, born in Cairo to Armenian parents, moved to Canada when he was three. They were the only Armenian family in an otherwise Anglo community, where the director says he "tried desperately to assimilate at all costs." With warmth characteristic throughout the afternoon, he recounts anecdotes from those times. "My sister's name is Eve," Egoyan says, "I had to go through my childhood with jokes about Atom and Eve.'" The director was attracted to drama from an early age, finding in it a way of creating, "a system where people could behave the way I wanted them to, since...
While majoring in international relations and classical guitar at the University of Toronto, he began making short films. Egoyan went on to direct several episodes of "The Twilight Zone" and "Alfred Hitchcock Presents," before releasing his first feature, "Next...
...Egoyan and his 1986 film, "Family Viewing," gained international media attention when director Wim Wenders declined his award for "Wings of Desire" at the 1987 Montreal Film Festival saying, "This is a great honour, but I ask you to give the award to my Canadian colleague, Atom Egoyan." Since then, Egoyan has become a regular at every major international festival, a member of the jury at the 1995 Sundance Festival, and a darling of both critics and audiences for films such as "Speaking Parts" (1989), "The Adjuster" (1991) and "Calendar" (1993). Egoyan is currently working on Elsewhereness, an opera...
...Egoyan, who has written the scripts for all his films, finds that the biggest challenge of film-making is "trying to preserve the energy that goes into the writing process; trying to keep the process of making the film as organic as its writing." Too often, Egoyan finds this energy missing from films which are "just executed" by the director, "as opposed to trying to maintain the ongoing process of creativity. The only way I can do that is by creating a structure where I am not quite sure what the chemistry is going to result...