American - Director | November 21, 1965 -
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
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There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
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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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