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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. "

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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

Film

Way

Moving

" 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. "

" 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. "

" New York grabbed me too hard, as did adulthood. "

Ira Sachs

New

Adulthood

" 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. "

" 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

Movies

Life

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

" You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced. "

" I think there's a fear of difference in American cinema. "

" Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

Ira Sachs

Films

Been

" 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

People

Gay

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

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

" Without community events like NewFest, I don't think we'd have a queer cinema in America. "

Ira Sachs

Think

Community

" 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. "

" 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

Think

Way

" Every film is hard to fund. "

" 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. "

" You can be aware of the passing of time without being nostalgic. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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

Movies

People

" 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. "

" I realize I have strength as an artist and professional by embracing my difference instead of what makes me the same. "