Ira Sachs Quotes
I started making movies in the early '90s, a few years after I discovered 'the cinema' during a three month stay in Paris during which I watched 100s of films.
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I love the idea of getting up early on Sundays and walking to the market to pick up fresh fruits and vegetables. It's a good way to start my day, and it makes me feel like I've accomplished something before other people are even awake.
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I have learned to be patient.
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I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
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I would like to see more Bollywood films! The more stylized musicals are a new trend in the U.S. We are beginning to make musicals again after a long break, practically since the days of the studio structure, so perhaps we can learn a few things from Bollywood about this fun style of film-making.
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The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.
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I believe in the impossible because no one else does.
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I was this kid who had been raised in New York, and now all of a sudden, my mother decided that she was a Jewish divorcee and therefore she should be living in Miami Beach.
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Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage.
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When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.
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I'm a professional, and I know what I have to do. I know where I've failed and how I've grown up.
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I don't believe in miracles.
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I believe women are the glue of everything.
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To say that I am pro life is just wrong. I am personally pro-choice and legislatively pro-choice.
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Unfortunately, the more chaotic the society, the greater is the desire for conservative, nonconfrontational art.
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But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live.
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I've never hidden the fact that I'm Jamaican; I will never disown my roots or influences.
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If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors.
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The fact is that in too many communities in cities in Britain gangs now have become completely rooted into these communities and they destroy them around them.
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I have more information in one place than anybody in the world.
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I don't think I would be getting any of these movies without that show, and that's a strong show, a great fan base and it's helped me out a lot. It took me out of Canada and brought me down to the states and gave me my career basically.
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I am just an artiste, and I like to explore new avenues.
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I find that with any good run on a show with good writers, they put something on paper, and you put something back on film, and that affects what they put on the paper the next time.
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I started making movies in the early '90s, a few years after I discovered 'the cinema' during a three month stay in Paris during which I watched 100s of films.
