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Cinema Quote by Ira Sachs

“All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That’s what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.” quote by Ira Sachs — Download Open image

“All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That’s what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.”

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New York grabbed me too hard, as did adulthood.

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

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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…

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My father moved out to Park City in in the mid-'70s and lived in a Winnebago behind a hippie joint called Utah Coal & Lumber that was one of only two or three restaurants at that time. Park City was a sleepy little mining town, with not a condo in sight.

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

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For me, an actor is really, first and foremost, a person and an individual, more than they are an actor or a professional.

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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 as a filmmaker: the intimacy I've had with experience in a particular world, so the film comes from things I've seen and things I've felt. It gets transformed by the process. I don't think I'd ever…

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

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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…

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

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

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