The big change that's happened for me in terms of my own life and how outsidership is reflected in my work is that I used to feel extraordinarily isolated in my life as I was trying to figure out who I was and how to have intimate relationships. And so my central characters also were isolated and usually in quite a bit of pain.
I'm a version of the same person. - Ira Sachs
I'm a version of the same person.
- Ira Sachs
People, for reasons of kind of security, they tend to move towards people like themselves. - Ira Sachs
People, for reasons of kind of security, they tend to move towards people like themselves.
Everything encourages you not to tell stories of gay lives. There is no economy yet for that kind of cinema. - Ira Sachs
Everything encourages you not to tell stories of gay lives. There is no economy yet for that kind of cinema.
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… - 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 of one story that could…
You are always factoring in the economy within the process of creating something, and making decisions that seem both fearless and full of fear. - Ira Sachs
You are always factoring in the economy within the process of creating something, and making decisions that seem both fearless and full of fear.
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. - 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.
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. - Ira Sachs
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.
Utopia is something that I think about in connection to an experience I had when I was a kid. - Ira Sachs
Utopia is something that I think about in connection to an experience I had when I was a kid.
I try to keep feeling what's going on and try to use the camera, the actors and the design to enhance those feelings. There's something really emotio… - Ira Sachs
I try to keep feeling what's going on and try to use the camera, the actors and the design to enhance those feelings. There's something really emotio…
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