Ira Sachs Quotes

I think, from the beginning, I was healed and inspired by queer culture, and Christine and the Queens, as an idea from the beginning, is queer because it questions the norm.

Queerness isn't just Lady Gaga and overpriced drinks and fauxhawks. It's James Baldwin and Bea Arthur and Gertrude Stein and Gore Vidal.

I get a real thrill for being 'overtly queer' in my aesthetic.

As a person who doesn't identify as straight, any love song I write is contextualized by a queer identity.

I have a naturally camp sensibility and a camp sense of humour. I love the icons that gay people love.

I do want people to know that the songs that I wrote when I was with women were really about women. And the songs that I've written since have been fairly obvious about men.

I've written songs about women since I've been involved with women, but I do know a few gay female artists who, back in the day, would write songs about men.

People often ask me why I choose to primarily play queer characters, and my answer is that as a queer man, I choose to align myself with projects in which I can be of service for a purpose greater than myself: to be for an audience of queer people of color, something I didn't have the privilege of seeing as a young man.

When I started making films, it was never that I had this great ambition to only do gay-themed material.

Someone will say, 'Shura's album is about being a gay woman in London.' Umm, I feel like my album's just about me. I am a gay woman, and I live in London... It's not about being a gay woman in London.

Historically a publicly unaccepted but incredibly rich culture, queer love was only able to exist privately for a long time, expressed in society through coded art forms.

I love St. Vincent. She is like our queer rock goddess and that's so needed.

I've played gay, and I've played straight... I'm proud to be a gay man myself, and I'm thrilled to get the opportunity to play a variety of different gay men.

It's so important to recognize that there have been fabulous queer artists all throughout our history.

'Queer as Folk' is gay gay gay gay gay.

I hope 'Hellcat' is picked up again in years to come by people who realize just how queer it is: not just in its characters but its sensibility.

I think artists are scared to have same-gendered pronouns in their writing, and I don't think it's because they're scared to be out, because gay artists are visible, but they don't want to alienate an audience.

I guess I had a suspicion of it my entire life without knowing exactly what it was - knowing that there was something different about me, which I attributed to being an artist. At 11 or 12 I started sort of clarifying for myself. It took a while.

Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.

I didn't know Charlie before doing the movie, but I was a huge fan of the British Queer as Folk.

In the male homosexual community, we love to label and categorize and organize each other as if we are in a never-ending high school biology class.

I was actually a bit disappointed about the amount of sex in the show. I think Backus should get out a bit more, get a relationship, perhaps make her a lesbian.

I wouldn't want to lose out on my macho action movie just because I told people I was queer.

In terms of sexual orientation I don't really feel I've changed. I don't feel there was a hidden part of my sexuality that I wasn't aware of. I'd been with men all my life, and I'd never fallen in love with a woman. But when I did, it didn't seem so strange.

I sort of challenge people's perceptions of what a gay man is, which is kinda good.