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I've been close to two or three couples, gay and straight, who have been together for 45 years.

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Every film is hard to fund.

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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.

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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.

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I have been very influenced by the director Maurice Pialat, who I continue to be in conversation and conflict with and get inspiration from.

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

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

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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.

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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.'

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

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: November 21st, 1965

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