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

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

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

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

- 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…

- 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.

- 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…

- Ira Sachs