Every film is hard to fund.
From Ira Sachs
One of the biggest things that happens to many people when they have kids is that you suddenly realize that you're not going to last forever. You know there is another generation who are the heroes of their own stories, and that is humbling.
I like a film that makes the audience feel like they are in the middle of life as it is moving, and in a way, they are catching up. They are thrown into things.
I have been very influenced by the director Maurice Pialat, who I continue to be in conversation and conflict with and get inspiration from.
I think there's a fear of difference in American cinema.
A lot of what I think I do as a director is try to give everything over to the actor. So I disappear.
I don't think I'd ever start making a film until I had both the intimacy with the subject and the distance to make it live in a certain way.
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.'
As a filmmaker, you realize that places have character based on their history as much as a face does or an actor does.
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.
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