Top 62 Quotes by Ira Sachs

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

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

It's easy to make a film, but it's hard to make a career of being a filmmaker.

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.

Without community events like NewFest, I don't think we'd have a queer cinema in America.

Every film is hard to fund.

I remember being a teenager and seeing Seymour Cassel across a crowded room and being incredibly star struck, and not having the courage to say, 'Hello.'

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

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.

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.