Quotes by Ira Sachs

Ira Sachs

By 1988, I was living in New York myself.

New York

I actually feel that all drama has an element of comedy in it. A great deal of that I learned from writers like Chekhov who called his plays his comedy even when they touch on tragedy.

Comedy

Drama

Tragedy

I do love the young adult novels as a form and genre, because it has a purity of intention and heart.

Adults

Heart

Purity

I love a certain kind of acting style that I would call non-American, which tends to be more detail-oriented and less externalized. There’s a kind of naturalism that I often find in non-American actors. I also find that quality in the American actors I work with, but I like to bring in those influences creatively.

Acting

Quality

Style

I make films that are very personal, and I always have. It’s kind of the only thing that I think I have to offer as a filmmaker: the intimacy I’ve had with experience in a particular world, so the film comes from things I’ve seen and things I’ve felt. It gets transformed by the process. 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.

Distance

Thinking

World

I tend not to think that anything I happen to be reporting on in my films is special. Meaning that people are always saying to me, ‘you must love New York, you have it in all your films.’ But mostly it’s because I know New York, and I know Brooklyn at this time. I know the lives there, because I have lived in them.

New York

People

Thinking

I think as a gay person, there was no way in my generation to not grow up with shame and a sense of being wrong. It was impossible to avoid. Externally, you might make choices that are very public and very open but internally that was a struggle.

Gay

Growing Up

Struggle

I think I tend to feel discomfort more when I anticipate or arrive upon moments in which I need to be careful. As a gay person, there’s the fear of violence, and we’re not making that up.

Gay

Thinking

Violence

I think my movie addresses the struggles of communities facing class distinctions, which are timeless. The questions of how we live together and what we do for money are really the stuff of drama.

Drama

Struggle

Thinking

I think parenting well is not so different than trying to consider how to be successful at any relationship. Like, how do you partner well? How do you collaborate well? How do we have this conversation well? You know, you’re always trying to figure out what “well” means, so I think parenting is another version of that.

Mean

Successful

Thinking

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Design

Discovery

Distance

Drama

Economic History

Economy

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Feelings

Film

Gay

Growing Up

Heart

Honesty

Intimacy

Levels

Looks

Mean

New York

Pain

People

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Self

Sponges

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Quotes by Ira Sachs

Ira Sachs

By 1988, I was living in New York myself.

I actually feel that all drama has an element of comedy in it. A great deal of that I learned from writers like Chekhov who called his plays his comedy even when they touch on tragedy.

I do love the young adult novels as a form and genre, because it has a purity of intention and heart.

I think as a gay person, there was no way in my generation to not grow up with shame and a sense of being wrong. It was impossible to avoid. Externally, you might make choices that are very public and very open but internally that was a struggle.

I think I tend to feel discomfort more when I anticipate or arrive upon moments in which I need to be careful. As a gay person, there’s the fear of violence, and we’re not making that up.

I think my movie addresses the struggles of communities facing class distinctions, which are timeless. The questions of how we live together and what we do for money are really the stuff of drama.

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