Ira Sachs
Ira Sachs
Ira Sachsis an American filmmaker. His first film was the acclaimed short Lady...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth21 November 1965
CountryUnited States of America
both certain subject until
I don't think I'd ever start making a film until I had both the intimacy with the subject and the distance to make it live in a certain way.
crucial life since
I've been hiding crucial events in my life since I was 13.
coming films iran stuff taiwan
I find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I have the feeling I'm not making the films that American distributors want to make.
best cannot survive
'How to Survive a Plague' is history-telling at its best. It's a film I'll show my two children, now toddlers, when they are old enough to understand. It's a movie that I cannot forget.
cannot filmmaker fully
I could not - and I still cannot - see a sustainable career as a filmmaker in which I focus fully on our gay stories.
age filmmaking opportunity order personal seems
I got into filmmaking in order to tell very personal stories, and in this day and age, the opportunity seems all the more precious.
conflict continue conversation director influenced
I have been very influenced by the director Maurice Pialat, who I continue to be in conversation and conflict with and get inspiration from.
embracing instead realize strength
I realize I have strength as an artist and professional by embracing my difference instead of what makes me the same.
A lot of what I think I do as a director is try to give everything over to the actor. So I disappear.
gay cinema stories
Everything encourages you not to tell stories of gay lives. There is no economy yet for that kind of cinema.
honesty design feelings
I try to keep feeling what's going on and try to use the camera, the actors and the design to enhance those feelings. There's something really emotionally direct and honest about how I put the material with the images. You hope that the strength of mise-en-scene comes from an honesty towards the material. You also hire really well.
careers issues choices
So there's a choice that I made to tell stories that are still psychological melodramas about domestic issues. The challenge is to figure out how to make 10 films a career as a filmmaker, and that's a really challenging thing.
biggest heroes kids last people realize suddenly
One of the biggest things that happens to many people when they have kids is that you suddenly realize that you're not going to last forever. You know there is another generation who are the heroes of their own stories, and that is humbling.
alone audience gives hope less people played resonate screen
I always hope that people feel less alone when they see a movie that I make. That some part of the story played out on the big screen will resonate for individuals in the audience in a way that gives them comfort.