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
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.
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.
act aids alive both came city dying height including involved movies time york
I came to N.Y.C. in 1988 and got very involved with Act Up. I also started making movies, including two very gay shorts, 'Vaudeville' and 'Lady.' It was the height of the AIDS epidemic, and New York City was both dying and very alive at the same time.
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.
hide
it's about what you hide and what you show.
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.
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.