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" I've been hiding crucial events in my life since I was 13. "
Ira Sachs
Hiding
My Life
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" What's interesting to me is the distinction between my old life and my present life. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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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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" 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 have been very influenced by the director Maurice Pialat, who I continue to be in conversation and conflict with and get inspiration from. "
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" By 1988, I was living in New York myself. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" 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 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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