Ira Sachs Quotes
As a filmmaker, you realize that places have character based on their history as much as a face does or an actor does.
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The difference between eccentricity and originality in historical studies is often difficult to detect at first encounter. When a radically new interpretation of a large segment of history makes its appearance, time is needed to sift the evidence.
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Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.
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I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.
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I'd love to play Moon Knight. I don't know if anybody's doing a Moon Knight animated series any time soon.
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I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.
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I come from nothing, and growing up, I really didn't have many people to inspire me, at least no good people to inspire me.
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Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.
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Now and always, hard-line policy and those who embrace it are vessels for darker forces that are at once self-cannibalizing and combustible. No good can come of them. They are unsustainable because their sense of righteousness denies human worth.
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I like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work.
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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Despite the disreputable company it keeps, bismuth is harmless. In fact, it's medicinal: Doctors prescribe it to soothe ulcers, and it's the 'bis' in hot-pink Pepto-Bismol. Overall, it seems like the most out-of-place element on the periodic table, a gentleman among scoundrels.
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I wanted as little formal linguistic theory as I could get by with. I wanted the basic linguistic training to do a translation of the New Testament.
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The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.
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We've got a strong group of Republicans who are conservatives who know that their jobs aren't finished when they finish their speech.
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I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.
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When I grew up, I thought I was Jewish. Now I don't consider myself Jewish. I consider myself a Kabbalist.
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I have been working for over 30 years and am always wondering about where I am and where I am going. It does not stop and become a fixed event of achievement.
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Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.
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If you develop a dialogue with me and take an interest in me, I'll want to give you the business. It's human nature.
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My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.
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As a filmmaker, you realize that places have character based on their history as much as a face does or an actor does.
