Ira Sachs Quotes

I love the irony of movies. I really do. For whatever reason, I'm incredibly intrigued by the irony of reality in a motion picture.

The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.

A year is an eternity in politics - though less than a moment in history.

Although for some people cinema means something superficial and glamorous, it is something else. I think it is the mirror of the world.

The cinema is an explosion of my love for reality.

History may be servitude. History may be freedom. See, now they vanish. The faces and places, with the self which, as it could, loved them, to become renewed, transfigured, in another pattern.

Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future.

Those we call the ancients were really new in everything.

History is a river that never ends. Today is history, and I am here at the fountainhead.

When I make a film I'm always in reality among the trees, and among the people like yourselves. There's no symbolic or conventional filter between me and reality as there is in literature. The cinema is an explosion of my love for reality.

I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.

Movies aren't just supposed to be a representation of reality. They're supposed to be an art.

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

Cinema at its best can express something of the pure irreducible fact of things.

I do love the past but wouldn't want to live in it.

I love the medium of film.

I love going to movies. It's just big, it takes you away, you can escape into it.

Each generation confronts new problems, encounters new facts, and tells our history somewhat differently.

Nations and races change with the change of periods and the passage of time.

I try and take the photographs and paintings and make them real. And the real video we treat as paintings. We flip the reality.

I love film, and I love short films.

I was born into a world in which the most compelling stories are through film. But that wasn't always the case. Everything changes; everything evolves.

Film has to reflect the real world.

If you look over the history of cinema, changes happen when directors embrace new tools and technology and think outside the box.

I think as storytelling has changed, you know, it's kind of turned into kind of hyper-reality movies.