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

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" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Movies are romantic fantasies. "

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

" New York grabbed me too hard, as did adulthood. "

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

" 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. "

" Every film is hard to fund. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" For gay people, we learned about our lives in secrecy and a lot of fear. "

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

" All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That's what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment. "

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

" As a filmmaker, you realize that places have character based on their history as much as a face does or an actor does. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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.' "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "