Ira Sachs Quotes

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Ira Sachs

Profession : Director

Birth : November 21, 1965

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

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Every film is hard to fund.

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You can be aware of the passing of time without being nostalgic.

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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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One of the biggest things that happens to many people when they have kids is that you suddenly realize that you're not going to last forever. You know there is another generation who are the heroes of their own stories, and that is humbling.

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I like a film that makes the audience feel like they are in the middle of life as it is moving, and in a way, they are catching up. They are thrown into things.

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

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

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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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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.

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What I loved about 'Goodfellas' is that it's a film about bad behavior - but told with great energy and without judgment - but it doesn't actually shy away from the consequences of that behavior in the characters' lives, which I think is similar in 'Keep the Lights On.'

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

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I've made four films about the destructive nature of relationships, of secrets and lies, and I think I'm no longer interested in that subject - which is a wonderful relief.

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I don't rehearse with my actors... the first rehearsal is the first time we turn the camera on... Sydney Pollack never rehearsed his actors, and I found out that's allowed... so you film reactions; you don't create them.

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Why do people stay in relationships that are tough from almost the very beginning?

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I started making movies in the early '90s, a few years after I discovered 'the cinema' during a three month stay in Paris during which I watched 100s of films.

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Secrets make for good drama, and revealing the hidden truths and contradictions of life is, for me, one of the most exciting aspects of making movies.

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I always hope that people feel less alone when they see a movie that I make. That some part of the story played out on the big screen will resonate for individuals in the audience in a way that gives them comfort.

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Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.

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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.

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