Ira Sachs Quotes
Secrets make for good drama, and revealing the hidden truths and contradictions of life is, for me, one of the most exciting aspects of making movies.
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I am an American citizen born in Kuwait of Egyptian parents. I grew up in Great Britain, Malaysia, and Egypt and have lived in the United States since 1965, when I was seventeen.
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Everyone thinks I land in a chopper on top of my building and I have the most cushy existence. Could you understand that I might have the most messed up life myself?
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We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.
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In Windsor in the forties, and even up into the fifties and sixties, if you were black, you had to sit in the balcony of the theatres, and you couldn't buy property in most places.
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Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.
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I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.
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ISIS is at war with America, but America is not at war with ISIS - not the president, nor the Congress, and certainly not the American people.
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If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
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Flag desecration is not a constitutional issue for the courts. It is a political one that belongs to the people.
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When there's no push back against Islamophobic rhetoric, people see that as tacit endorsement of anti-Islamic rhetoric.
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You gotta improvise in life. You gotta improv if the police pull you over.
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Security was another reason. You never know what can happen to you when you earn a lot of money.
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I'd like to do something with Michael Buble, Harry Connick Jr., Tim McGraw, Justin Timberlake, and Gwen Stefani.
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I don't hide my being Israeli. I say it in every interview. I put out a record with songs in Hebrew. The people who signed me have no connection to Judaism or Israel.
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With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
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When a town doesn't have a book store, it is like something is missing, and unfortunately, fewer and fewer have them.
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I care about people, and I've learned in life that the only thing we are here for is to learn and teach.
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I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.
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[On peanut M&Ms:] It is the eggness of them. A shell, chocolate placenta, proteiny peanut baby. Life shape, birth shape, cell shape, protoplasmic-ooze shape. A shape that calls straight through civilization to our reptilian brains.
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One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
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Having a hit is nice, having some success, but when you move popular culture, that's a high.
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Secrets make for good drama, and revealing the hidden truths and contradictions of life is, for me, one of the most exciting aspects of making movies.
