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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If I showed you scripts from my first few movies, the descriptions of my characters all said 'the ugly girl'.
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All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get out of the way.
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In America today, the percentage of children and adolescents who are defined as overweight is more than double what it was in the early 1970s.
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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.
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I'd like to be able to be like a director, like Richard Brooks, say. And be able to say, 'I did my best, and this is it, and there's nobody to blame but me.'
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Movies are romantic fantasies.
