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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. "

Ira Sachs

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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. "

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

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

" 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

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

" Every film is hard to fund. "

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

Ira Sachs

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

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

" You can only begin to share life well when you think well of yourself. "

" 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. "

" '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. "

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

" 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. "

" I've been close to two or three couples, gay and straight, who have been together for 45 years. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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

" 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. "

" 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

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" I have been very influenced by the director Maurice Pialat, who I continue to be in conversation and conflict with and get inspiration from. "

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

" 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. "

" 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've been hiding crucial events in my life since I was 13. "