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
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.
career easy hard
It's easy to make a film, but it's hard to make a career of being a filmmaker.
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.
Being an artist is in part an act of rupture.
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.
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.
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.
Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.
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.
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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.'