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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 start making a film until I had both the intimacy with the subject and the distance to make it live in a certain way.

Ira Sachs's Popular Quotes

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

Everything encourages you not to tell stories of gay lives. There is no economy yet for that kind of cinema.

- 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…

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

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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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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.

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

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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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