Ira Sachs Quotes

Used properly, cinema is the coolest thing in the world.

When you're working on a film, it's almost like photographing paintings at a museum. You're photographing somebody else's world. I just try and interpret it and make it real, and make it what the actors are about, what the director is about, and what the film is about.

I know nothing of life except through the cinema.

I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.

Film is a truly magical medium.

Film is important; it can be more than reportage or a novel - it creates images people have never seen before, never imagined they'd see, maybe because they needed someone else to imagine them.

If you consider film an art form, as some people do, then the Western would be a truly American art form, much as jazz is.

For me, I see filmmaking as art.

It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form.

You don't paint pictures to put them in your attic. You want people to look at them.

During the war, I saw many films that made me fall in love with the cinema.

I was attracted to a lot of different art forms - dancing, painting. But there's something about music that people hold so close. It's such a powerful art form, and that's why I live for it.

'Napoleon' is pure cinema, and cinema was designed for sharing.

Movies were very important. The art-form of the 20th century.

Film is a strange thing.

I did love 'The Artist.' I've seen it four times, and every time I see it, it gets better and better.

The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people.

I don't think most of our films should be realistic, but you want that as an artistic possibility. Then, the artist can take the realism of the world and push it in ways that we can connect with.

For me, every film is an interesting experience.

I love the movies. Everyone always says the same thing about the shared cultural experience, seeing things on the big screen, the church of the cinema... But on top of all that, as a filmmaker, I love having people be trapped in a movie theater, forcing them to watch what I made.

Cinema is a form of art, and like every other art form, cinema also needs freedom of expression.

It's difficult to explain in words, but I enjoy doing films more than theatre. It helps me in experiencing moments of truth and I can write an entire thesis on my love for the medium!

I feel every film has its own charm and gets made for a purpose.

I came to the conviction that film criticism, in and of itself, was an art.

For me, cinema is very important. I grew up with television; then, as a teenager, you discover cinema.