34 Ira Sachs Quotes for You to Enjoy

Ira Sachs

American Director

Born: Nov 21, 1965

Been Gay Life Me Think You

Related authors: David Lynch George Lucas Martin Scorsese Spike Lee Steven Spielberg Tim Burton Woody Allen

Being an artist is in part an act of rupture. Ira Sachs

Rupture Part Artist Being Act

What's interesting to me is the distinction between my old life and my present life. Ira Sachs

Life Me Old Distinction Between Interesting Present Present Life

You can only begin to share life well when you think well of yourself. Ira Sachs

Life You Yourself Think Only Share Well Begin

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

Films Got Go Been Autobiographical

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 - that almost obscene sense that we shouldn't be this close to these people. I find that very inviting and meaningful as an audience member. Ira Sachs

Beautiful Me People Sense Intimacy Member Find Pretty Only Obscene Excites Almost Inviting Audience Audience Member Very Close The Only Thing Interested Movies Personally Meaningful Much Capturing Thing

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

Life Events My Life Hiding Crucial Since Been

As a gay person, my life has been marginalized. Ira Sachs

Life Gay My Life Has-Been Been Person Marginalized

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

Gay You Cinema Everything Tell Kind Economy Encourages Stories Lives

My films might have been queer - because I was - but they were not gay. Ira Sachs

Gay Films Because Were Queer Been Might

I came to N.Y.C. in 1988 and got very involved with Act Up. I also started making movies, including two very gay shorts, 'Vaudeville' and 'Lady.' It was the height of the AIDS epidemic, and New York City was both dying and very alive at the same time. Ira Sachs

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I grew up in the 1960s in Memphis, and my father was a member of the American Civil Liberties Union. I was born three years before Martin Luther King was killed, and I think that history of civil action was something that I had in my blood. Ira Sachs

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