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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. "

Ira Sachs

Secrets

Think

Nature

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Ira Sachs

Movies

Life

" I think there's a fear of difference in American cinema. "

" Every film is hard to fund. "

" Fighting bitterness can be a full-time job. "

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

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

Ira Sachs

Old

Present

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

Ira Sachs

Think

Community

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

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

" Movies are romantic fantasies. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" '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. "

" 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.' "

" 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

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

" Why do people stay in relationships that are tough from almost the very beginning? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I could not - and I still cannot - see a sustainable career as a filmmaker in which I focus fully on our gay stories. "

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

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

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

" 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.' "