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
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.
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.
giving risk helping
The praise helps on a deep level, which gives you the grounding that encourages you to trust yourself. On another level, each film is a risk, and the praise doesn't save you from that risk.
heart purity intention
I do love the young adult novels as a form and genre, because it has a purity of intention and heart.
film conflict self-discovery
My early films were about self discovery, and films of internal conflict. At that level, they were very personal.
pain conflict
To come to change, there had to be conflict and pain.
writing film
When working on and writing a film, I'm often more of a sponge than other times, aware of what's going on around me.
thinking people special
I tend not to think that anything I happen to be reporting on in my films is special. Meaning that people are always saying to me, 'you must love New York, you have it in all your films.' But mostly it's because I know New York, and I know Brooklyn at this time. I know the lives there, because I have lived in them.
new-york
By 1988, I was living in New York myself.
gay cinema stories
Everything encourages you not to tell stories of gay lives. There is no economy yet for that kind of cinema.
reality shifting cinema
All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That’s what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.
hide
it's about what you hide and what you show.
behind coal condo hippie joint lived mining moved park sleepy three time utah
My father moved out to Park City in in the mid-'70s and lived in a Winnebago behind a hippie joint called Utah Coal & Lumber that was one of only two or three restaurants at that time. Park City was a sleepy little mining town, with not a condo in sight.
career easy hard
It's easy to make a film, but it's hard to make a career of being a filmmaker.