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63 quotes by Ira Sachs

Ira Sachs (born November 21, 1965) is an American filmmaker. His first film was the acclaimed short Lady (1993). Born in Memphis, Tennessee, his films have included the Sundance Film Festival selection The Delta (1997), the Sundance Film Festival Grand Prize winning Forty Shades of Blue (2005), and Married Life (2007), starring Chris Cooper and Pierce Brosnan. His film, Keep the Lights On, debuted at Sundance in 2012. His newest film, Love Is...
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Fighting bitterness can be a full-time job.

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Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.

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My father moved out to Park City in in the mid-'70s and lived in a Winnebago behind a hippie joint called Utah Coal & Lumber that was one of... →

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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.

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As a gay person, my life has been marginalized.

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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.

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

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Suspense films are often based on communication problems, and that affects all of the plot points. It almost gives it kind of a fable feeling.

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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 -... →

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'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... →

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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... →

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Seeing the road show of 'A Chorus Line' in 1977 at the Orpheum Theater in downtown Memphis was a life-changing event for me: there were gay... →

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

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