Ira Sachs Quotes

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Ira Sachs

Profession : Director

Birth : November 21, 1965

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

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

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Being an artist is in part an act of rupture.

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

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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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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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By 1988, I was living in New York myself.

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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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'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.

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

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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.

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