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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. "

Ira Sachs

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

Ira Sachs

Old

Present

" 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. "

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

" It's easy to make a film, but it's hard to make a career of being a filmmaker. "

" 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. "

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

Ira Sachs

Films

Been

" A lot of what I think I do as a director is try to give everything over to the actor. So I disappear. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think it's interesting: What is the generational effect of the experience of being a gay person in America? For my generation, it was very difficult. "

" 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. "

" There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age. "

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

" Secrets make for good drama, and revealing the hidden truths and contradictions of life is, for me, one of the most exciting aspects of making movies. "

Ira Sachs

Movies

Life

" 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

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

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

Ira Sachs

Think

Community

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

" Movies are romantic fantasies. "

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

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

" '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. "

" I realize I have strength as an artist and professional by embracing my difference instead of what makes me the same. "

" By 1988, I was living in New York myself. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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