It was actually the worst reviewed film that I ever did.
It was in competition on the Friday night.
The last couple of films, we showed in Venice or Berlin.
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When you have A-list talent on the set nothing changes.
Theyre great actors, and theyre there to do what they do.
I let other people do it because I was just too busy with features.
Maybe in retrospect, that would have been an interesting time to get into television.
And people were not sure what to make of that, Egoyan said ofArarat.
I had to change my conversation because I became something of a spokesperson.
Its exactly the film I intended it to be.
But it took a while to recover from the effects of that.
The opera was playing just over a year ago in Toronto.
I had to film it while it was on stage and while we had the singers.
Very few of the financiers understood this condition.
Everyone kept saying, Can you just delay it until we get the financing is in place?
and I was, No, Were either going to shoot it when its happening, or its impossible.
I dont have anything that Im ready to announced yet.
Im really looking at doing another literary adaptation at this point, he said.
Theres a large historical project that has come up in Europe that I have to make a decision on.
Its a question of where my efforts are best put.
Sometimes there are projects where I feel like someone else could do it better.
I learned that they are two different worlds, he said.
