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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. "

Ira Sachs

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Community

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Fighting bitterness can be a full-time job. "

" All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That's what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment. "

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

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

Ira Sachs

Films

Been

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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

" As a gay person, my life has been marginalized. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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

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

Ira Sachs

New

Adulthood

" 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 got into filmmaking in order to tell very personal stories, and in this day and age, the opportunity seems all the more precious. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Every film is hard to fund. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

" '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. "

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