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
Without community events like NewFest, I don't think we'd have a queer cinema in America. — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
A lot of what I think I do as a director is try to give everything over to the actor. So I… — 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
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 started making movies in the early '90s, a few years after I discovered 'the cinema' during a three month stay in… — 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
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
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
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
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 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 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
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
Everything encourages you not to tell stories of gay lives. There is no economy yet for that kind of cinema. — 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 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
Music Box has proven itself in a few short years to be a cutting edge distributor with a sophisticated understanding of both… — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That’s what I love about cinema. It… — 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
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
My early films were about self discovery, and films of internal conflict. At that level, they were very personal. — 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 figure out… — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Everyone wants to belong, and everyone needs to belong in order to make a career on some level. — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
