76 Quotes by Ira Sachs

Working on the Obama campaign was a life-changer for me. I realized during that campaign that structure is the name of the game, and so, soon after the election, filmmaker Adam Baran and I started Queer/Art/Film, a monthly series at the IFC Film Center in downtown New York that invites queer artists to present the films they love to an audience.

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

By 15, I was lucky enough to find the theater.

Everyone wants to belong, and everyone needs to belong in order to make a career on some level.

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

I grew up thinking there was something called 'independent film,' which I wouldn't necessarily have had access to if there wasn't Sundance.

I think there's a fear of difference in American cinema.

I've been close to two or three couples, gay and straight, who have been together for 45 years.

Most simply but profoundly, I chose to live an honest life, which I think as a gay person is not a given.