76 Quotes by Ira Sachs

I could not - and I still cannot - see a sustainable career as a filmmaker in which I focus fully on our gay stories.

I got into filmmaking in order to tell very personal stories, and in this day and age, the opportunity seems all the more precious.

I have been very influenced by the director Maurice Pialat, who I continue to be in conversation and conflict with and get inspiration from.

I realize I have strength as an artist and professional by embracing my difference instead of what makes me the same.

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

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.

For me, every film is actually a form of documentary.

I've always been interested in how the individual comes to know and accept him or herself, which I think has been hard for me.