I haven't yet seen Atom Egoyan's new film, "Adoration," yet but in an interview with Mark Olsen in the Los Angeles Times, he described his anti-formulaic approach to films:
"There's something essentially erotic about that feeling, that feeling that something is promising a possibility, and that can be quite charged and dynamic, as opposed to something which affirms a formula you already anticipate."
"I love the feeling of having the viewer's mind racing with possibility as to what something might mean, and that feeling that they might be missing something, that their entire system of understanding something might be subverted at some point. I find it actually quite thrilling."
Here is a video that starts with some clips from the film and then a brief interview with Egoyan (total time is about six minutes):
