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
dad happened present staying
I happened to be staying with my dad and his present 19-year-old girlfriend. So that was really fascinating ? it was a mirror-image kind of experience.
pain conflict
To come to change, there had to be conflict and pain.
film conflict self-discovery
My early films were about self discovery, and films of internal conflict. At that level, they were very personal.
heart purity intention
I do love the young adult novels as a form and genre, because it has a purity of intention and heart.
basically
I'm basically making the same film over and over again,
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.
hide
it's about what you hide and what you show.
almost capturing close excites interested intimacy inviting meaningful movies obscene personally
Capturing intimacy is pretty much the only thing I'm interested in. That's what excites me and what I find beautiful in movies personally - that almost obscene sense that we shouldn't be this close to these people. I find that very inviting and meaningful as an audience member.
across courage crowded incredibly room star teenager
I remember being a teenager and seeing Seymour Cassel across a crowded room and being incredibly star struck, and not having the courage to say, 'Hello.'
compels invested longer
I'm not interested in a film about deceit anymore. I think I was always invested in deceit on some level. But it no longer compels me the way it did for so many years.
fear lives secrecy
For gay people, we learned about our lives in secrecy and a lot of fear.
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.
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.
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.