It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.
Atom EgoyanYou are traveling and see these people shooting the entire experience of going through a city, and maybe in the back of their minds they sustain the illusion that they will edit it all, but I don't think that's it.
Atom EgoyanI 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 EgoyanThe biggest problem with the independent film sector in Toronto is that they find themselves having to make that budget show on screen.
Atom Egoyan