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I don't think I'd ever start making a film until I had both the intimacy with the subject and the distance to make it live in a certain way. -- Ira Sachs
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I always think of my films within the context of where aesthetics meet economics. That's the nature of making art - not being naive about what is possible and getting what you need to tell the story you want to tell. -- Ira Sachs
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I think it's interesting: What is the generational effect of the experience of being a gay person in America? For my generation, it was very difficult. -- Ira Sachs
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What I loved about 'Goodfellas' is that it's a film about bad behavior - but told with great energy and without judgment - but it doesn't actually shy away from the consequences of that behavior in the characters' lives, which I think is similar in 'Keep the Lights On.' -- Ira Sachs
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All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That's what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment. -- Ira Sachs
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New York grabbed me too hard, as did adulthood. -- Ira Sachs
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I find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I have the feeling I'm not making the films that American distributors want to make. -- Ira Sachs
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I'm not interested in a film about deceit anymore. I think I was always invested in deceit on some level. But it no longer compels me the way it did for so many years. -- Ira Sachs
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I have been very influenced by the director Maurice Pialat, who I continue to be in conversation and conflict with and get inspiration from. -- Ira Sachs
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I've always been interested in how the individual comes to know and accept him or herself, which I think has been hard for me. -- Ira Sachs
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I've made four films about the destructive nature of relationships, of secrets and lies, and I think I'm no longer interested in that subject - which is a wonderful relief. -- Ira Sachs
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As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work. -- Ira Sachs
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Capturing intimacy is pretty much the only thing I'm interested in. That's what excites me and what I find beautiful in movies personally - that almost obscene sense that we shouldn't be this close to these people. I find that very inviting and meaningful as an audience member. -- Ira Sachs
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My father moved out to Park City in in the mid-'70s and lived in a Winnebago behind a hippie joint called Utah Coal & Lumber that was one of only two or three restaurants at that time. Park City was a sleepy little mining town, with not a condo in sight. -- Ira Sachs
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When you live with people you know them better than you care to. -- Ira Sachs
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Everyone wants to belong, and everyone needs to belong in order to make a career on some level. -- Ira Sachs
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Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of. -- Ira Sachs
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I like a film that makes the audience feel like they are in the middle of life as it is moving, and in a way, they are catching up. They are thrown into things. -- Ira Sachs
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By 1988, I was living in New York myself. -- Ira Sachs
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Fighting bitterness can be a full-time job. -- Ira Sachs
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'How to Survive a Plague' is history-telling at its best. It's a film I'll show my two children, now toddlers, when they are old enough to understand. It's a movie that I cannot forget. -- Ira Sachs
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I came to N.Y.C. in 1988 and got very involved with Act Up. I also started making movies, including two very gay shorts, 'Vaudeville' and 'Lady.' It was the height of the AIDS epidemic, and New York City was both dying and very alive at the same time. -- Ira Sachs
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Most simply but profoundly, I chose to live an honest life, which I think as a gay person is not a given. -- Ira Sachs
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Music Box has proven itself in a few short years to be a cutting edge distributor with a sophisticated understanding of both the market and cinema. -- Ira Sachs
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Suspense films are often based on communication problems, and that affects all of the plot points. It almost gives it kind of a fable feeling. -- Ira Sachs
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Secrets make for good drama, and revealing the hidden truths and contradictions of life is, for me, one of the most exciting aspects of making movies. -- Ira Sachs
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Movies are romantic fantasies. -- Ira Sachs
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I started making movies in the early '90s, a few years after I discovered 'the cinema' during a three month stay in Paris during which I watched 100s of films. -- Ira Sachs
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It's easy to make a film, but it's hard to make a career of being a filmmaker. -- Ira Sachs
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Being an artist is in part an act of rupture. -- Ira Sachs
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Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself. -- Ira Sachs
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You can be aware of the passing of time without being nostalgic. -- Ira Sachs
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You can only begin to share life well when you think well of yourself. -- Ira Sachs
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I've been close to two or three couples, gay and straight, who have been together for 45 years. -- Ira Sachs
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I don't rehearse with my actors ... the first rehearsal is the first time we turn the camera on ... Sydney Pollack never rehearsed his actors, and I found out that's allowed ... so you film reactions; you don't create them. -- Ira Sachs
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By 15, I was lucky enough to find the theater. -- Ira Sachs
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Every film is hard to fund. -- Ira Sachs
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There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age. -- Ira Sachs
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Why do people stay in relationships that are tough from almost the very beginning? -- Ira Sachs
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Without community events like NewFest, I don't think we'd have a queer cinema in America. -- Ira Sachs
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As I've gotten less righteous, less pedagogic, I have become more loving of the artificiality, the art form, the imitation of life in film. -- Ira Sachs
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I grew up thinking there was something called 'independent film,' which I wouldn't necessarily have had access to if there wasn't Sundance. -- Ira Sachs
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I remember being a teenager and seeing Seymour Cassel across a crowded room and being incredibly star struck, and not having the courage to say, 'Hello.' -- Ira Sachs
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I realize I have strength as an artist and professional by embracing my difference instead of what makes me the same. -- Ira Sachs
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What's interesting to me is the distinction between my old life and my present life. -- Ira Sachs
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So there's a choice that I made to tell stories that are still psychological melodramas about domestic issues. The challenge is to figure out how to make 10 films a career as a filmmaker, and that's a really challenging thing. -- Ira Sachs
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Seeing the road show of 'A Chorus Line' in 1977 at the Orpheum Theater in downtown Memphis was a life-changing event for me: there were gay people, on the stage, and they all lived in New York. -- Ira Sachs
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You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced. -- Ira Sachs
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All of my films have been autobiographical - it's all I've got to go on. -- Ira Sachs
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I grew up in the 1960s in Memphis, and my father was a member of the American Civil Liberties Union. I was born three years before Martin Luther King was killed, and I think that history of civil action was something that I had in my blood. -- Ira Sachs
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I've been hiding crucial events in my life since I was 13. -- Ira Sachs
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As a gay person, my life has been marginalized. -- Ira Sachs
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As a filmmaker, you realize that places have character based on their history as much as a face does or an actor does. -- Ira Sachs
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For gay people, we learned about our lives in secrecy and a lot of fear. -- Ira Sachs
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student. -- Ira Sachs
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My films might have been queer - because I was - but they were not gay. -- Ira Sachs
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I got into filmmaking in order to tell very personal stories, and in this day and age, the opportunity seems all the more precious. -- Ira Sachs
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I think there's a fear of difference in American cinema. -- Ira Sachs
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I always hope that people feel less alone when they see a movie that I make. That some part of the story played out on the big screen will resonate for individuals in the audience in a way that gives them comfort. -- Ira Sachs
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Everything encourages you not to tell stories of gay lives. There is no economy yet for that kind of cinema. -- Ira Sachs
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I could not - and I still cannot - see a sustainable career as a filmmaker in which I focus fully on our gay stories. -- Ira Sachs
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For me, every film is actually a form of documentary. -- Ira Sachs
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A lot of what I think I do as a director is try to give everything over to the actor. So I disappear. -- Ira Sachs