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 how to make 10 films a career as a filmmaker, and that's a really challenging thing.
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.
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.
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.
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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