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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

Children

Survive

Forget

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" It's easy to make a film, but it's hard to make a career of being a filmmaker. "

" 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. "

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

Ira Sachs

Films

Been

" 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.' "

" 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

" 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. "

" 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

Imitation

Loving

" Every film is hard to fund. "

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

" My films might have been queer - because I was - but they were not gay. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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

" Most simply but profoundly, I chose to live an honest life, which I think as a gay person is not a given. "

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

Ira Sachs

New

Adulthood

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

" Why do people stay in relationships that are tough from almost the very beginning? "

" 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.' "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" What's interesting to me is the distinction between my old life and my present life. "

Ira Sachs

Old

Present

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