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
alone audience gives hope less people played resonate screen
I always hope that people feel less alone when they see a movie that I make. That some part of the story played out on the big screen will resonate for individuals in the audience in a way that gives them comfort.
biggest heroes kids last people realize suddenly
One of the biggest things that happens to many people when they have kids is that you suddenly realize that you're not going to last forever. You know there is another generation who are the heroes of their own stories, and that is humbling.
basically
I'm basically making the same film over and over again,
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.