Most simply but profoundly, I chose to live an honest life, which I think as a gay person is not a given. — 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 always been interested in how the individual comes to know and accept him or herself, which I think has been hard… — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
I think it's interesting: What is the generational effect of the experience of being a gay person in America? For my generation,… — 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
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'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
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
I grew up in the 1960s in Memphis, and my father was a member of the American Civil Liberties Union. I was… — 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
