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
queer
My films might have been queer - because I was - but they were not gay.
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Music Box has proven itself in a few short years to be a cutting edge distributor with a sophisticated understanding of both the market and cinema.
chose life simply
Most simply but profoundly, I chose to live an honest life, which I think as a gay person is not a given.
close
I've been close to two or three couples, gay and straight, who have been together for 45 years.
fear
I think there's a fear of difference in American cinema.
I grew up thinking there was something called 'independent film,' which I wouldn't necessarily have had access to if there wasn't Sundance.
belong needs wants
Everyone wants to belong, and everyone needs to belong in order to make a career on some level.
By 15, I was lucky enough to find the theater.
films
All of my films have been autobiographical - it's all I've got to go on.
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Working on the Obama campaign was a life-changer for me. I realized during that campaign that structure is the name of the game, and so, soon after the election, filmmaker Adam Baran and I started Queer/Art/Film, a monthly series at the IFC Film Center in downtown New York that invites queer artists to present the films they love to an audience.
hard interested
I've always been interested in how the individual comes to know and accept him or herself, which I think has been hard for me.
For me, every film is actually a form of documentary.
art gotten less life loving
As I've gotten less righteous, less pedagogic, I have become more loving of the artificiality, the art form, the imitation of life in film.
based history places realize
As a filmmaker, you realize that places have character based on their history as much as a face does or an actor does.