Ira Sachs Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Capturing intimacy is pretty much the only thing I'm interested in. That's what excites me and what I find beautiful in movies personally - that almost obscene sense that we shouldn't be this close to these people. I find that very inviting and meaningful as an audience member.”

“It's easy to make a film, but it's hard to make a career of being a filmmaker.”

“Movies are romantic fantasies.”

“'How to Survive a Plague' is history-telling at its best. It's a film I'll show my two children, now toddlers, when they are old enough to understand. It's a movie that I cannot forget.”

“I came to N.Y.C. in 1988 and got very involved with Act Up. I also started making movies, including two very gay shorts, 'Vaudeville' and 'Lady.' It was the height of the AIDS epidemic, and New York City was both dying and very alive at the same time.”

“I'm not interested in a film about deceit anymore. I think I was always invested in deceit on some level. But it no longer compels me the way it did for so many years.”

“A lot of what I think I do as a director is try to give everything over to the actor. So I disappear.”

“All of my films have been autobiographical - it's all I've got to go on.”

“As a filmmaker, you realize that places have character based on their history as much as a face does or an actor does.”

“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.”