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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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" 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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" You can be aware of the passing of time without being nostalgic. "
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" Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of. "
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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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" My films might have been queer - because I was - but they were not gay. "
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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. "
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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 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. "
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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. "
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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'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. "
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" For me, every film is actually a form of documentary. "
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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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" By 15, I was lucky enough to find the theater. "
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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. "
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" Movies are romantic fantasies. "
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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. "
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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. "
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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. "
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" Being an artist is in part an act of rupture. "
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" All of my films have been autobiographical - it's all I've got to go on. "
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" For gay people, we learned about our lives in secrecy and a lot of fear. "
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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. "
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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. "
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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. "
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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. "
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