Ira Sachs Quotes

To be a creative person and be a professional, as an artist you have to be able to withstand pain, rejection, and for some, a lot of bad feelings, but you have to be able to look through those.

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.

The questions of economics, and how they infect, or rather how they affect intimacy. And that's probably the subject of all my films.

People, for reasons of kind of security, they tend to move towards people like themselves.

As a father, I wanted to make a movie that my kids can love.

Utopia is something that I think about in connection to an experience I had when I was a kid.

I think my movie addresses the struggles of communities facing class distinctions, which are timeless. The questions of how we live together and what we do for money are really the stuff of drama.

The praise helps on a deep level, which gives you the grounding that encourages you to trust yourself. On another level, each film is a risk, and the praise doesn't save you from that risk.

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

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

To come to change, there had to be conflict and pain.

When working on and writing a film, I'm often more of a sponge than other times, aware of what's going on around me.

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 story that could be told purely in a Marxist construction.

I'm interested in what actors reveal about themselves through the structure of the character.

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

I actually feel that all drama has an element of comedy in it. A great deal of that I learned from writers like Chekhov who called his plays his comedy even when they touch on tragedy.

I'm a version of the same person.

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

To me, honesty and the difficulty of honest communication are at the heart of both my life and my movies. The difficulty of being yourself.

By 1988, I was living in New York myself.

When you live with people you know them better than you care to.

Movies are romantic fantasies.

I remember being a teenager and seeing Seymour Cassel across a crowded room and being incredibly star struck, and not having the courage to say, 'Hello.'

I got into filmmaking in order to tell very personal stories, and in this day and age, the opportunity seems all the more precious.

There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.

Suspense films are often based on communication problems, and that affects all of the plot points. It almost gives it kind of a fable feeling.