Secrets And Lies Quotes by Ira Sachs

New York grabbed me too hard, as did adulthood.

— Ira Sachs

My early films were about self discovery, and films of internal conflict. At that level, they were very personal.

— Ira Sachs

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

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

I do love the young adult novels as a form and genre, because it has a purity of intention and heart.

— Ira Sachs

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

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

Everyone wants to belong, and everyone needs to belong in order to make a career on some level.

— Ira Sachs

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

For me, every film is actually a form of documentary.

— Ira Sachs

I realize I have strength as an artist and professional by embracing my difference instead of what makes me the same.

— Ira Sachs

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

Everything encourages you not to tell stories of gay lives. There is no economy yet for that kind of cinema.

— Ira Sachs

For gay people, we learned about our lives in secrecy and a lot of fear.

— Ira Sachs

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