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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 could not - and I still cannot - see a sustainable career as a filmmaker in which I focus fully on our gay stories. "
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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. "
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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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" 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. "
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" By 1988, I was living in New York myself. "
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New York
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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. "
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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. "
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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. "
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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
Strength
Same
Professional
" Everyone wants to belong, and everyone needs to belong in order to make a career on some level. "
Ira Sachs
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Order
Level
" 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. "
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Imitation
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" My films might have been queer - because I was - but they were not gay. "
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Gay
Been
Because
" 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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American
Father
" Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of. "
Ira Sachs
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Something
Afraid
" You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced. "
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You
Creativity
Understand
" 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. "
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You
Decisions
World
" It's easy to make a film, but it's hard to make a career of being a filmmaker. "
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Easy
Make
Hard
" 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. "
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Think
Start
" Without community events like NewFest, I don't think we'd have a queer cinema in America. "
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" There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age. "
Ira Sachs
Things
Lot
Lost
" I have been very influenced by the director Maurice Pialat, who I continue to be in conversation and conflict with and get inspiration from. "
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Director
Been
Conflict
" For gay people, we learned about our lives in secrecy and a lot of fear. "
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Learned
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Our
" 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.' "
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Think
Loved
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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
Courage
Hello
Remember
" One of the biggest things that happens to many people when they have kids is that you suddenly realize that you're not going to last forever. You know there is another generation who are the heroes of their own stories, and that is humbling. "
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Generation
Know
You
" A lot of what I think I do as a director is try to give everything over to the actor. So I disappear. "
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Actor
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" Every film is hard to fund. "
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Hard
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" I've been hiding crucial events in my life since I was 13. "
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Hiding
My Life
Life
" Why do people stay in relationships that are tough from almost the very beginning? "
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Tough
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Beginning
" Everything encourages you not to tell stories of gay lives. There is no economy yet for that kind of cinema. "
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Economy