Ira Sachs Quotes
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In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
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I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays, I'm still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals.
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The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like.
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I'm trying to work in studio movies, but they won't hire me.
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I don't want to be known as the one who makes movies for older people.
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I don't have a lot of patience for boring arthouse movies.
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Doing voices in animated movies has been one of my dreams. You get to go and act, and you don't have to put on makeup.
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I'm not a romantic.
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I'm not a big fan of romantic comedies, believe it or not.
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I've always been a huge fan of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies.
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I have tender, romantic associations with upstate New York.
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Movies are too literal.
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Alone is a much better film than House of the Dead and better than most horror movies out today.
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People talk about Hollywood as a myth, but in reality, when you make Icelandic movies and you want to get them distributed in the U.S., you're not really working with Hollywood. The movies I've been making, the first one I made, I made it with Working Title, but it was financed through Universal, so it became a Hollywood production.
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I still want to do a romantic comedy or a western or a gritty independent film... there's so much that I still want to do.
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I've tried to get better about weighing what I think the accessibility of an idea is against the cost of executing it. I've tried to be smarter about that, because if you're not smart about that, you're going to be unemployed. But I'm still mystified about what works for people. And I'm not talking about my movies, I'm talking in general. I'm mystified by the stuff that doesn't work. I'm mystified by what's going on in the critical side, too.
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My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for it.
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I've loved music always, and my music fire was lit by Elvis Presley, really, and all that was happening back then.
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Guests who shop at Ulta know exactly what we're about. People who have not shopped at Ulta or have not shopped at Ulta for a long time have a fuzzy image. And that's what I'm all about sharpening and elevating.
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Movies are romantic fantasies.
