HOBOKEN — It’s long been said that film director John Sayles was among the famous people living in Hoboken. But some have wondered if he still lives here, or if he moved out to California by now.
In an interview with the Sunday Star-Ledger, Sayles said he still lives in the Hoboken building he bought 30 years ago, when it was a bit cheaper to buy in the mile-square city than now.
The story starts off:
He drives a Subaru. He dresses in gym shorts and tank tops. And although he has a home in Dutchess County now, he still works out of the same small rowhouse he bought in Hoboken 30 years ago — back when guys like him could still buy in Hoboken.
But it’s because of those economics — a collector’s eye that tends more toward books and tribal rugs than sports cars and crystal, a working-class mind-set that hates waste and believes in giving good value — that he’s been able to survive.
Because although he’s made a good living from Hollywood, he’s never been of Hollywood.
The story doesn’t talk about Hoboken, but about his films.
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