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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

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Loving

" 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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" 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. "

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

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" 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

Way

" 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. "

" You can be aware of the passing of time without being nostalgic. "

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

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

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Old

Present

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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