It's easy to make a film, but it's hard to make a career of being a filmmaker. — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
All of my films have been autobiographical - it's all I've got to go on. — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
I've made four films about the destructive nature of relationships, of secrets and lies, and I think I'm no longer interested in… — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
My early films were about self discovery, and films of internal conflict. At that level, they were very personal. — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
To me, honesty and the difficulty of honest communication are at the heart of both my life and my movies. The difficulty… — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I got into filmmaking in order to tell very personal stories, and in this day and age, the opportunity seems all the… — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
I could not - and I still cannot - see a sustainable career as a filmmaker in which I focus fully on… — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
I like a film that makes the audience feel like they are in the middle of life as it is moving, and… — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
The praise helps on a deep level, which gives you the grounding that encourages you to trust yourself. On another level, each… — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
So there's a choice that I made to tell stories that are still psychological melodramas about domestic issues. The challenge is to… — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
I don't rehearse with my actors... the first rehearsal is the first time we turn the camera on... Sydney Pollack never rehearsed… — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
What I loved about 'Goodfellas' is that it's a film about bad behavior - but told with great energy and without judgment… — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
Working on the Obama campaign was a life-changer for me. I realized during that campaign that structure is the name of the… — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
I try not to articulate ideas in the film once I've arrived on the plot and the characters. I believe that if… — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the… — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
I make films that are very personal, and I always have. It's kind of the only thing that I think I have… — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
I tend not to think that anything I happen to be reporting on in my films is special. Meaning that people are… — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
Suspense films are often based on communication problems, and that affects all of the plot points. It almost gives it kind of… — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
As I've gotten less righteous, less pedagogic, I have become more loving of the artificiality, the art form, the imitation of life… — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe… — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a… — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
'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… — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in a film about deceit anymore. I think I was always invested in deceit on some level. But it… — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
The questions of economics, and how they infect, or rather how they affect intimacy. And that's probably the subject of all my… — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
I always hope that people feel less alone when they see a movie that I make. That some part of the story… — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
When working on and writing a film, I'm often more of a sponge than other times, aware of what's going on around… — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
I don't think I'd ever start making a film until I had both the intimacy with the subject and the distance to… — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
I always think of my films within the context of where aesthetics meet economics. That's the nature of making art - not… — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
I've worked with non-professional actors, I've worked with movie stars, I've worked with kids, I've worked with older people, and I've found… — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
My early films were about self discovery, and films of internal conflict. At that level, they were very personal. — Ira Sachs Copy Share
So there's a choice that I made to tell stories that are still psychological melodramas about domestic issues. The challenge is to figure out… — Ira Sachs Copy Share
My father moved out to Park City in in the mid-'70s and lived in a Winnebago behind a hippie joint called Utah Coal &… — Ira Sachs Copy Share
I do love the young adult novels as a form and genre, because it has a purity of intention and heart. — Ira Sachs Copy Share
For me, an actor is really, first and foremost, a person and an individual, more than they are an actor or a professional. — Ira Sachs Copy Share
I make films that are very personal, and I always have. It's kind of the only thing that I think I have to offer… — Ira Sachs Copy Share
Everyone wants to belong, and everyone needs to belong in order to make a career on some level. — Ira Sachs Copy Share
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… — Ira Sachs Copy Share
I realize I have strength as an artist and professional by embracing my difference instead of what makes me the same. — Ira Sachs Copy Share
Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to… — Ira Sachs Copy Share
Everything encourages you not to tell stories of gay lives. There is no economy yet for that kind of cinema. — Ira Sachs Copy Share
I think as a gay person, there was no way in my generation to not grow up with shame and a sense of being… — Ira Sachs Copy Share
