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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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" 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. "

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

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

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

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" 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. "