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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. "
Ira Sachs
Director
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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. "
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" I don't think I'd ever start making a film until I had both the intimacy with the subject and the distance to make it live in a certain way. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" It's easy to make a film, but it's hard to make a career of being a filmmaker. "
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" Most simply but profoundly, I chose to live an honest life, which I think as a gay person is not a given. "
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" New York grabbed me too hard, as did adulthood. "
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" Without community events like NewFest, I don't think we'd have a queer cinema in America. "
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" You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced. "
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" Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of. "
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Something
Afraid
" 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. "
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Relationships
" A lot of what I think I do as a director is try to give everything over to the actor. So I disappear. "
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Actor
Director
" 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. "
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New York
Gay
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. "
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Student
School
" '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. "
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Children
Survive
Forget
" 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. "
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Think
Me
Way
" My films might have been queer - because I was - but they were not gay. "
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Gay
Been
Because
" 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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Think
Loved
Great
" Every film is hard to fund. "
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Every
Hard
Fund
" 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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Find
Want
Out
" 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. "
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Generation
Know
You
" I've been close to two or three couples, gay and straight, who have been together for 45 years. "
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Been
Gay
Two
" I think there's a fear of difference in American cinema. "
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Think
I Think
Fear
" You can be aware of the passing of time without being nostalgic. "
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Time
You
Passing
" What's interesting to me is the distinction between my old life and my present life. "
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Old
Present
Me
" I got into filmmaking in order to tell very personal stories, and in this day and age, the opportunity seems all the more precious. "
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Opportunity
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" All of my films have been autobiographical - it's all I've got to go on. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Nature