Ira Sachs Quotes

We all have those dreams of going back in time and seeing what it was like when our parents were younger.

When I think of my career, I can't help but think of the kid with his ball, falling in love.

Utopias rest on the fallacy that perfection is a legitimate goal of human existence.

Being with a kid always takes you to being a kid somehow, and they really are showing me a childhood I might not have had in some way.

Utopias have their value -- nothing so wonderfully expands the imaginative horizons of human potentialities -- but as guides to conduct they can prove literally fatal.

Sometimes my family thinks I've made my childhood a bit more Dickensian than it was, and it probably wasn't all that bad. But I was uncomfortable as a kid.

Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don't fit in?

I love kids. I was a kid myself, once.

I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.

When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.

At night I dream about going to where I played when I was still young.

Everybody is idealistic when you're a kid.

Emotionally, I have no picture-book illustrated with memories of my first five years, but externally, I have impressions that possess a haunting vividness comparable only to the texture of dreams, when dreams are tumultuously alive.

We were just a gaggle of kids, and everybody played together and had a good time. You know how kids can be completely horrible - abusive but fun. But anyway, it was a nice childhood.

One of the things I would like to do is make up stories that I would have enjoyed when I was a kid. So, if I'm thinking about an audience, it's usually a younger version of myself.

Being a kid during the '80s, I feel I didn't really get the full experience.

The kids are so much fun. I'm always taking a look over at what they're doing because it reminds me of when I was so small before.

Then again, I think about high school every day and I think about being a little kid every day too.

I sang in choir as a kid.

As a kid, I watched a lot of TV.

When I was a kid I was definitely into Neil Young.

Everyone has a goldfish when they're little.

I think a lot of people also have kids to reclaim thу innocence and experience it over again. I think it's about staying curious and not losing the sense of wonder.

Without the Utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked. It was Utopians who traced the lines of the first City.....Out of generous dreams come beneficial realities. Utopia is the principle of all progress, and the essay into a better future.

When I see birches bend to left and right... I like to think some boy's been swinging them.