Ira Sachs Quotes
Top 43 wise famous quotes and sayings by Ira Sachs
Ira Sachs Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Ira Sachs on Wise Famous Quotes.
I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
Most simply but profoundly, I chose to live an honest life, which I think as a gay person is not a given.
Music Box has proven itself in a few short years to be a cutting edge distributor with a sophisticated understanding of both the market and cinema.
You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.
I don't think I'd ever start making a film until I had both the intimacy with the subject and the distance to make it live in a certain way.
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.
I realize I have strength as an artist and professional by embracing my difference instead of what makes me the same.
I could not - and I still cannot - see a sustainable career as a filmmaker in which I focus fully on our gay stories.
As a filmmaker, you realize that places have character based on their history as much as a face does or an actor does.
A lot of what I think I do as a director is try to give everything over to the actor. So I disappear.
I have been very influenced by the director Maurice Pialat, who I continue to be in conversation and conflict with and get inspiration from.
As I've gotten less righteous, less pedagogic, I have become more loving of the artificiality, the art form, the imitation of life in film.
Secrets make for good drama, and revealing the hidden truths and contradictions of life is, for me, one of the most exciting aspects of making movies.
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.
I've always been interested in how the individual comes to know and accept him or herself, which I think has been hard for me.
I got into filmmaking in order to tell very personal stories, and in this day and age, the opportunity seems all the more precious.
I grew up thinking there was something called 'independent film,' which I wouldn't necessarily have had access to if there wasn't Sundance.