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
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.
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.
A lot of what I think I do as a director is try to give everything over to the actor. So I disappear.
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.
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.
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.
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.
crucial life since
I've been hiding crucial events in my life since I was 13.
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.
life
As a gay person, my life has been marginalized.
chorus downtown event lived memphis theater
Seeing the road show of 'A Chorus Line' in 1977 at the Orpheum Theater in downtown Memphis was a life-changing event for me: there were gay people, on the stage, and they all lived in New York.
affects almost based communication fable films gives plot suspense
Suspense films are often based on communication problems, and that affects all of the plot points. It almost gives it kind of a fable feeling.
applied decided instead
I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
fear lives secrecy
For gay people, we learned about our lives in secrecy and a lot of fear.