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" 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. "

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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. "

Ira Sachs

Early

Paris

Cinema

" 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

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

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

" 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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

" 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've always been interested in how the individual comes to know and accept him or herself, which I think has been hard for me. "

" 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

" Without community events like NewFest, I don't think we'd have a queer cinema in America. "

Ira Sachs

Think

Community

" 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. "

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

Ira Sachs

Films

Been

" 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. "

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

Ira Sachs

Old

Present

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

" Everyone wants to belong, and everyone needs to belong in order to make a career on some level. "

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

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

Ira Sachs

New

Adulthood

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced. "

" Everything encourages you not to tell stories of gay lives. There is no economy yet for that kind of cinema. "

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

" 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. "

" Every film is hard to fund. "

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