76 Quotes by 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.

As a gay person, my life has been marginalized.

Being an artist is in part an act of rupture.

By 1988, I was living in New York myself.

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.

I've been hiding crucial events in my life since I was 13.

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

I find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I have the feeling I'm not making the films that American distributors want to make.

'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.