I think as a gay person, there was no way in my generation to not grow up with … - Ira Sachs

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Above average intelligence has always run in my family. Ambition, however, has always walked with a limp.

Ira Sachs

I think as a gay person, there was no way in my generation to not grow up with shame and a sense of being wrong. It was impossible to avoid. Externally, you might make choices that are very public and very open but internally that was a struggle.

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I think my movie addresses the struggles of communities facing class distinctions, which are timeless. The questions of how we live together and what we do for money are really the stuff of drama.

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I'm someone who can create critiques of individuals based on their economic history. That's one way I look at people in terms of one story that could be told purely in a Marxist construction.

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I tend not to think that anything I happen to be reporting on in my films is special. Meaning that people are always saying to me, 'you must love New York, you have it in all your films. ' But mostly it's because I know New York, and I know Brooklyn at this time. I know the lives there, because I have lived in them.

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When working on and writing a film, I'm often more of a sponge than other times, aware of what's going on around me.

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To come to change, there had to be conflict and pain.

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