Ira Sachs Quotes
Suspense films are often based on communication problems, and that affects all of the plot points. It almost gives it kind of a fable feeling.
Ira Sachs
American filmmaker
There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
Ira Sachs
American filmmaker
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.
Ira Sachs
American filmmaker
I remember being a teenager and seeing Seymour Cassel across a crowded room and being incredibly star struck, and not having the courage to say, 'Hello.'
Ira Sachs
American filmmaker
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.
Ira Sachs
American filmmaker
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.
Ira Sachs
American filmmaker
All of my films have been autobiographical - it's all I've got to go on.
Ira Sachs
American filmmaker
Everyone wants to belong, and everyone needs to belong in order to make a career on some level.
Ira Sachs
American filmmaker
Capturing intimacy is pretty much the only thing I'm interested in. That's what excites me and what I find beautiful in movies personally - that almost obscene sense that we shouldn't be this close to these people. I find that very inviting and meaningful as an audience member.
Ira Sachs
American filmmaker
As a filmmaker, you realize that places have character based on their history as much as a face does or an actor does.
Ira Sachs
American filmmaker
As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work.
Ira Sachs
American filmmaker
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.
Ira Sachs
American filmmaker
Being an artist is in part an act of rupture.
Ira Sachs
American filmmaker
I grew up thinking there was something called 'independent film,' which I wouldn't necessarily have had access to if there wasn't Sundance.
Ira Sachs
American filmmaker
I'm not interested in a film about deceit anymore. I think I was always invested in deceit on some level. But it no longer compels me the way it did for so many years.
Ira Sachs
American filmmaker
I have been very influenced by the director Maurice Pialat, who I continue to be in conversation and conflict with and get inspiration from.
Ira Sachs
American filmmaker
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.'
Ira Sachs
American filmmaker
'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.
Ira Sachs
American filmmaker
My films might have been queer - because I was - but they were not gay.
Ira Sachs
American filmmaker
Most simply but profoundly, I chose to live an honest life, which I think as a gay person is not a given.
Ira Sachs
American filmmaker
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