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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Ira Sachs

As a gay person, my life has been marginalized.

— Ira Sachs

You are always factoring in the economy within the process of creating something, and making decisions that seem both fearless and full…

— Ira Sachs

I've been hiding crucial events in my life since I was 13.

— Ira Sachs

Without community events like NewFest, I don't think we'd have a queer cinema in America.

— Ira Sachs

Movies are romantic fantasies.

— Ira Sachs

You can only begin to share life well when you think well of yourself.

— Ira Sachs

Why do people stay in relationships that are tough from almost the very beginning?

— Ira Sachs

I've been close to two or three couples, gay and straight, who have been together for 45 years.

— Ira Sachs

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

As a filmmaker, you realize that places have character based on their history as much as a face does or an actor…

— Ira Sachs