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Ira Sachs Quotes

A lot of what I think I do as a director is try to give everything over to the actor. So I disappear.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: November 21, 1965

Topics

Think Actor Try Director Everything

The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last.

Andrew Sullivan

Love Romantic Gay Become Begin Last

Judges are appointed often through the political process.

Process Political Judges Through

In Americana, the facts and the dreams seem to be all the same to me.

Robbie Robertson

Dreams Me Facts Same Seem Americana

I don't want to be an oldies act, kind of dragging around on the road just for the money.

Money Road Want Kind Act Just

And the whole Oscar thing, that is just surreal: you spend months and months doing promotion, and then come back to reality with this golden thing in your hands. You put it in the office and then you just have to look at it sitting on the shelf. And, after about two weeks, you go: 'What is that doing there?'

Reality Doing Hands You Look Back

I wanted to play football or be a boxer, but my dad didn't want that because of all the impact. But in 1992 I was watching short track, and it was obscure, but they looked like superheroes in their tight outfits, and I thought it was amazing. I wanted to do that. I made the national team at 14.

Football Amazing Team Thought Impact

You have to be a lover of books without expecting more of them than they give - a little pleasure, a little insight, a moment of escape, a deepening of your own humanity. Not much else.

Moment Humanity You Escape Insight

If we can actually decrease the failure rate from nine out of 10 drugs failing in clinical trials and instead have seven out of 10 instead failing, that is a major victory for drug discovery and for people having better therapy.

Failure People Victory Better Trials

Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far so fast in such a small space; you've got to burn away all the peripherals.

Discipline Poetry Space Small You

I'm not going to head off and do a Marvel film. So if I don't do a Marvel film, I don't have any other choice - I've got to go make a small New Zealand movie!

Small Choice Go New Head Going

John McCain and Lindsay Graham have a habit of communicating with great passion and regularity. I have great respect for both individuals, but their style is not everyone's style.

Passion Respect Great Style Habit

Winning is something you've dreamed about and hoped for, so that when you get there it's no big deal. But if you lose, you're gutted, and the gutted sense just goes on, and I know what that's like, because I've been having that gutted feeling since 1979.

Richard Griffiths

Winning You Lose Feeling Know Big

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