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. Ira Sachs Read Quote
I find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I have the feeling I’m not making the films that American distributors want to make. Ira Sachs Read Quote
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. Ira Sachs Read Quote
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. Ira Sachs Read Quote
A lot of what I think I do as a director is try to give everything over to the actor. So I disappear. Ira Sachs Read Quote
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. Ira Sachs Read Quote
Why do people stay in relationships that are tough from almost the very beginning? Ira Sachs Read Quote
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. Ira Sachs Read Quote
