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All Quotes by author - Ira Sachs

" 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. "

" All of my films have been autobiographical - it's all I've got to go on. "

" A lot of what I think I do as a director is try to give everything over to the actor. So I disappear. "

" As a filmmaker, you realize that places have character based on their history as much as a face does or an actor does. "

" As a gay person, my life has been marginalized. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Being an artist is in part an act of rupture. "

" By 15, I was lucky enough to find the theater. "

" By 1988, I was living in New York myself. "

" 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. "

" Every film is hard to fund. "

" Everyone wants to belong, and everyone needs to belong in order to make a career on some level. "

" Everything encourages you not to tell stories of gay lives. There is no economy yet for that kind of cinema. "

" 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. "

" Fighting bitterness can be a full-time job. "

" For gay people, we learned about our lives in secrecy and a lot of fear. "

" For me, every film is actually a form of documentary. "

" '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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I could not - and I still cannot - see a sustainable career as a filmmaker in which I focus fully on our gay stories. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I got into filmmaking in order to tell very personal stories, and in this day and age, the opportunity seems all the more precious. "

" 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. "

" I grew up thinking there was something called 'independent film,' which I wouldn't necessarily have had access to if there wasn't Sundance. "

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